What was the name of the 1929 novel written by the author whose scenario inspired the one-act ballet "Le Train Bleu"?
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Le Train Bleu (ballet) Le train bleu is a one-act ballet choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska to music by Darius Milhaud for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, based on a scenario by Jean Cocteau. The title was taken from the night train called Le Train Bleu, which transported wealthy passengers from Calais to the Mediterranean Sea. The ballet is set at the fashionable resort of Deauville and has a sporting theme, with swimmers, tennis players, and weight lifters. Henri Laurens supplied a Cubist beach scene and Coco Chanel outfitted the cast in sportswear. The curtain was painted after "Deux femmes courant sur la plage", a 1922 work by Pablo Picasso.
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Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (] ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel "Les Enfants Terribles" (1929), and the films "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "Les Parents Terribles" (1948), "Beauty and the Beast" (1946) and "Orpheus" (1949). His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, María Félix, Édith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet, and Raymond Radiguet.
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Grigory Kugushev Prince Grigory Vasilyevich Kugushev (Russian: Григорий Васильевич Кугушев , 17 March 1824, – 3 October 1871) was a Russian writer, poet and playwright whose comedies (including "Goluboi Kapot", Blue Hood; "Pari", The Bet; "Priyomysh", Foster) had great (if not very lasting) success in the Russian Imperial Theatres in 1850s. More substantial and critically acclaimed were Kugushev's works of fiction, notably "Kornet Otletayev" (Корнет Отлетаев, a three-part novella, first published by "Russky Vestnik" in 1856) and the four-part novel "Postoronneye Vliyaniye" (Постороннее влияние, 1858—1859). He also wrote the libretto for the epic drama opera "Mazeppa" (1859) by Baron
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Courrier sud (film) Courrier sud, translated as Southern Mail and Southern Carrier, is a 1937 French film directed by Pierre Billon. It is adapted from the 1929 novel of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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The Flight to France The Flight to France (French: "Le Chemin de France" , 1887) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne about a fictional French Army Captain Natalis Delpierre, with a setting in the year 1792 just before the French Revolutionary Wars. Several English language editions were published with the subtitle, "The Flight to France; or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tale of the Day of Dumouriez."
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Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne ( ; ] ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Le Gaulois Le Gaulois (] ) was a French daily newspaper, founded in 1868 by Edmond Tarbé and Henri de Pène. After a printing stoppage, it was revived by Arthur Meyer in 1882 with notable collaborators Paul Bourget, Alfred Grévin, Abel Hermant, and Ernest Daudet. Among its many famous contributing editors was Guy de Maupassant. Gaston Leroux's novel "The Phantom of the Opera" was first published as a serialization in its pages between September 1909 and January 1910.
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Sowing the Wind (1929 film) Sowing the Wind (French:Graine au vent) is a 1929 French silent drama film directed by Maurice Kéroul and Jacques Mills and starring Alexandra, Claudie Lombard and Henri Baudin. It is an adaptation of a novel by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, which was later turned into a sound film in 1944.
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The Blue Peril The Blue Peril (English translation of the French title, Le Péril Bleu) is a 1910 French science fiction novel by Maurice Renard. It was translated into English by Brian Stableford in 2010, and is considered by many to be Renard's masterpiece, with at least one critic exclaiming it "still reads as well as when it was originally published." While a science fiction story, it also combines elements of the detective and horror genres. It features invisible alien creatures living high in Earth's orbit who fish for men the way we do fish, and study the specimens they catch.
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Béatrix Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the "Scènes de la vie privée" section of his novel sequence "La Comédie humaine".
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Un roi sans divertissement Un roi sans divertissement ("a king without distraction") is a 1947 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. The narrative is set between 1843 and 1848 in the French Prealps and follows a police officer who discovers unpleasant truths about himself during a murder investigation. It was the first book by Giono to be published after World War II and marks the beginning of a new phase in the author's oeuvre.
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Monsieur Lecoq (novel) Monsieur Lecoq is a novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Émile Gaboriau, whom André Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". The novel depicts the first case of Monsieur Lecoq, an energetic young policeman who appears in other novels by Gaboriau.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline (] ) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (] ; 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. His most famous work is the 1932 novel, "Journey to the End of the Night".
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Paul Bilhaud Paul Bilhaud (31 December 1854 – 8 January 1933) was a French playwright and librettist. An old friend of the author Alphonse Allais, he is remembered along his friend as a forerunner of minimalism with his painting "Combat de nègres dans un tunnel" ("(Negroes fight in a tunnel)"), displayed for the first time in 1882, more than thirty years before the « "Black Square" » by Kazimir Malevich However, Bilhaud was not the first to create an all-black artwork: for example, Robert Fludd published an image of "Darkness" in his 1617 book on the origin and structure of the cosmos; and Bertall published his black "Vue de La Hogue (effet de nuit)" in 1843.) Inspired by Bilhaud, Alphonse Allais proposed other monochrome paintings, published in his "Album primo-avrilesque" in 1897.
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Le Bossu (novel) Le Bossu ("The Hunchback") is a French historical adventure novel by Paul Féval, first published in serial parts in Paris in 1858.
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Story of the Eye Story of the Eye (French: "L'histoire de l'oeil" ) is a 1928 novella by Georges Bataille that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits.
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A Battle of Nerves A Battle of Nerves (French: "La Tête d'un homme", also known as "A Man's Head") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest of Simenon's "Maigret" novels, and one of eleven he had published that year.
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Hippolyte Bis Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis (29 August 1789 – 3 March 1855) was an early 19th-century French playwright and librettist. He is mostly known for the libretto to Giachino Rossini's opera "William Tell" (premiered in 1829), which he wrote with Étienne de Jouy.
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Serge Panine (novel) Serge Panine is an 1890 novel by the French writer Georges Ohnet.
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Querelle of Brest Querelle of Brest (French: "Querelle de Brest" ) is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Its protagonist, Georges Querelle, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit. The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film, "Querelle" (1982).
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La Périchole La Périchole (] ) is an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the French-language libretto based on the 1829 one act play "Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement" by Prosper Mérimée, which was revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français. Offenbach was probably aware of this production, as he conducted the orchestra of the Comédie-Française from around this time. Another theatrical creation that pre-dates Offenbach's opéra bouffe and may have influenced the piece is a farce by Desforges and Théaulon given on 21 October 1835 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.
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Un gentilhomme Un gentilhomme is a novel by the French novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, published by Flammarion in 1920, after his death. Only three chapters were published.