What French author wrote the novel that the 1953 French-Italian film the wages of war was adapted from?
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Georges Arnaud Henri Girard (1917 - 1987) is a French author who used the pseudonym Georges Arnaud. He was born in France, in Montpellier. He is the author of the novel "The Wages of Fear" (French: "Le salaire de la peur" ).
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The Wages of Fear The Wages of Fear (French: Le salaire de la peur ) is a 1953 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, and based on the 1950 French novel "Le salaire de la peur" (lit. "The Salary of Fear") by Georges Arnaud. When an oil well owned by an American company catches fire, the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames. The film brought Clouzot international fame, and allowed him to direct "Les Diaboliques". In France the film was the 4th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 6,944,306 admissions.
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My Brother Yves My Brother Yves (French: "Mon Frère Yves" , 1883) is a semi-autobiographical novel by French author Pierre Loti. It describes the friendship between French naval officer Pierre Loti and a hard drinking Breton sailor Yves Kermadec during the 1870s and 80s. It was probably Loti's best-known book, and its descriptions of Breton seafaring life, on board ship and on shore, set the tone for his later acclaimed work "An Iceland Fisherman" (1886).
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Les Chouans Les Chouans (] , "The Chouans") is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the "Scènes de la vie militaire" section of his novel sequence "La Comédie humaine". Set in the French region of Brittany, the novel combines military history with a love story between the aristocratic Marie de Verneuil and the Chouan royalist Alphonse de Montauran. It takes place during the 1799 post-war uprising in Fougères.
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The Red Head (1952 film) The Red Head (French: Poil de carotte) is a 1952 French drama film directed by Paul Mesnier and starring Raymond Souplex, Germaine Dermoz and Pierre Larquey. It is based on the novel "Poil de carotte" by Jules Renard which had previously adapted into films twice by Julien Duvivier before the Second World War.
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Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and "The Song of Bernadette" (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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Normance Normance is a 1954 novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The story is a fictionalised version of the author's experiences during the last parts of World War II, where he supported the Nazis. It is the sequel to Céline's 1952 novel "Fable for Another Time", and has the subtitle "Fable for Another Time II" ("Féerie pour une autre fois II").
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Koenigsmark (1953 film) Koenigsmark is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Solange Térac and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Silvana Pampanini and Renée Faure. It is an adaptation of Pierre Benoît's 1918 novel of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Dumesnil.
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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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Les Soleils des indépendances Les Soleils des indépendances ("The Suns of Independence") is the first novel by Ivorian author Ahmadou Kourouma. It won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1969.
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The Man Who Laughs The Man Who Laughs (also published under the title "By Order of the King") is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title "L'Homme qui rit". It was adapted into a popular 1928 film, directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin and Olga Baclanova. It was recently adapted for the 2012 French film "L'Homme Qui Rit", directed by Jean-Pierre Améris and starring Gérard Depardieu, Marc-André Grondin and Christa Theret.
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Georges Le Faure Georges Le Faure (12 June 1856 – 25 May 1953) was a French writer who authored many popular novels, including swashbuckling ones.
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Georges Bayle A populist author, he published "Du raisin dans le gaz-oil" in 1954 dedicated to Jacques Perret with whom Georges Bayle was interned during the Second World War. The plot is located in the corporation of truckers. The novel was adapted by Michel Audiard under the title "Gas-oil" directed by Gilles Grangier with Jean Gabin and Jeanne Moreau.
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Les Deux Étendards Les Deux Étendards ("The two banners") is a 1952 novel by the French writer Lucien Rebatet. The narrative is partly autobiographical and set in Lyon in the 1920s. It follows two young men who are in love with the same woman; one of them is to become a Jesuit priest, while the other—the author's alter ego—is a fierce agnostic.
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Robert Briffault Robert Stephen Briffault {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (] , 1874 – 11 December 1948) was a French surgeon who found fame as a social anthropologist and later in life as a novelist.
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Army of Shadows Army of Shadows (French: L'armée des ombres ) is a 1969 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It is a film adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1943 book of the same name, which blends Kessel's own experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictionalized versions of other Resistance members. "Army of Shadows" follows a small group of Resistance fighters as they move between safe houses, work with the Allied militaries, kill informers, and attempt to evade the capture and execution that they know is their most likely fate. While portraying its characters as heroic, the film presents a bleak, unromantic view of the Resistance.
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The Torture Garden The Torture Garden (French: "Le Jardin des supplices" ) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. The novel is ironically dedicated: "To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."
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The Opium of the Intellectuals The Opium of the Intellectuals (French: "L'Opium des intellectuels" ) is a book written by Raymond Aron and published in 1955. It was first published in an English translation in 1957.
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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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Les Liaisons dangereuses (film) Les liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a 1959 French-language film, loosely based on the 1782 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, though is set in present-day France.
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Claude Farrère Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, Lyon – 21 June 1957, Paris), was a French author of novels set in such exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon, and Nagasaki. One of his novels, "Les civilisés" ("The Civilized") won the Prix Goncourt for 1905. He was elected to a chair at the Académie française on 26 March 1935. Initially, however, he imitated his father, an infantry colonel who served in the French colonies: enlisting with the naval academy in 1894, he was made lieutenant in 1906 and was promoted to captain during 1918. He resigned the next year to concentrate on his writing career.
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Madeleine Férat Madeleine Férat is an 1868 novel by the French writer Émile Zola.