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Director:Manuel PoirierWriters:Manuel Poirier and Jean-François GoyetDirector of Photography:Nara Keo KosaliEditor:Yann DedetMusic:Bernardo SandovalProduction Designer:Roland MabilleProducers…

Nenette et Boni

Director:Claire DenisWriters:Jean-Pol Fargeau and Claire DenisDirector of Photography:Agnes GodardEditor:Yann DedetMusic:TindersticksProducer:Georges BenayounStrand Releasing; NR; 103…

1988 Cannes Film Festival

Palme d'OrPelle the Conqueror, Bille August (Denmark/Sweden)Special Jury PrizeA World Apart, Chris Menges (United States)Best ActorForest Whitaker, Bird (United States)Best ActressBarbara…

Poitiers

(Encyclopedia) PoitiersPoitierspwätyāˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 82,507), capital of Vienne dept., W central France, on the Clain River. The ancient capital of Poitou, it is now an industrial,…

Jack Nance Biography

Jack Nance(Marvin John Nance)actorBorn: 12/21/1943Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts Nance acted in several films directed by David Lynch, most memorably in the lead role of Eraserhead (1976); he…

Brewer's: Carlovingian Dynasty

So called from Carolus or Charles Martel. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CarludovicaCarle A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…

Brewer's: Berthe au Grand Pied

Mother of Charlemagne, and great granddaughter of Charles Martel; so called because she had a club-foot. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BertoldeBerthas A…

Brewer's: Genovefa

(g soft). Wife of Count Palatine Siegfried, of Brabant, in the time of Charles Martel. Being suspected of infidelity, she was driven into the forest of Ardennes, where she gave birth to a…

Brewer's: Maccabzaeus

The Hammerer. A surname given to Judas Asmonaeus; similar to “Martel,” the name given to Charles, son of Pepin He ristel, who beat down the Saracens as with a sledgehammer. Some think the…