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Swimmer on the beach of Deauville (Calvados), France, about 1925

Photo by Maurice-Louis Branger

A young woman at the beach in Deauville, Vintage silver print (c1925) by Maurice-Louis Branger

A young woman at the beach in Deauville, France, 1920s - by Maurice-Louis Branger (1874 - 1950), French

Au Festival de Deauville, Judith Godrèche était entourée de ses enfants, Noé Boon et Tess Barthélémy, pour présenter la mini-série « Icon of French Cinema ». Le trio a fièrement affiché sa complicité.

Tess Barthélemy

Actrice ‧ Fille de Judith Godrèche

Tess Barthélémy est connue pour être la fille de l'actrice Judith Godrèche et de l'acteur Maurice Barthélémy. Elle voit le jour le 19 avril 2005, un an après la rencontre de ses parents. Ceux-ci se séparent en 2012.

Date de naissance: 19 avril 2005

Parents: Judith Godrèche, Maurice Barthélemy

Grands-parents: Mimi Barthélémy, Marie Deslis, Alain Godrèche, Gérard Barthélémy

Films

2023 UN PÈRE IDÉAL - Hélène Fillières

2015 PAS TRÈS NORMALES ACTIVITÉS - Maurice Barthélemy

2015 NUIT BLANCHE ENTRE AMIS - Patrick Brice

2018 UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER - Archie Borders

Séries

2022 ICON OF FRENCH CINEMA - Judith Godrèche

Frank Villard and Danièle Delorme in Gigi (Jacqueline Audry, 1949)

Cast: Danièle Delorme, Yvonne de Bray, Gaby Morlay, Jean Tissier, Frank Villard, Paul Demange, Madeleine Rousset, Pierre Juvenet, Michel Flamme, Colette Georges, Yolande Laffon, Hélène Pépée. Screenplay: Pierre Laroche, based on a novel by Colette. Cinematography: Gérard Perrin. Set decoration: Raymond Druart. Film editing: Nathalie Petit-Roux. Music: Marcel Landowski.

The print I saw of Jacqueline Audry’s Gigi was not very good, the images having shifted into high contrast with little variation in the grays, so that the subtitles were often an unreadable white on white. But anyone familiar with either the Colette novella or the 1958 Lerner and Loewe musical version directed by Vincente Minnelli would have little trouble following the story. It’s a movie that retains much of the charm and a little of the bite of the original, and Danièle Delorme is a fetching Gigi, the girl raised to be a grande horizontale who wins the heart and hand of the wealthy Gaston Lachaille (Frank Villard). Delorme and Villard don’t erase memories of Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan in the musical, but they have their own contributions to make, especially Villard, who is particularly strong in the scenes in which Gaston comes to realize the true nature of his feelings for Gigi. You sense his rising queasiness when she accepts his proposal to become his mistress, especially in the scene in the private room at the restaurant where they are about to consummate their relationship. When she naively asks why the couches in the room have slipcovers and when she chooses his cigar by rolling it between her fingers as she has been taught, the full obscenity of the situation becomes apparent to him. It has been apparent to us from the moment at the beginning of the film when we meet his uncle, Honoré, whom Jean Tissier plays as far more a dirty old man than the elegant Maurice Chevalier did in the musical. Which is not to say that the movie’s moral stance is heavy-handed: Director Audry has a very light touch, the product of a close collaboration with Colette. There are some wonderful period touches throughout the film, including Gaston’s automobile, Aunt Alicia’s (Gaby Morlay) telephone, and the bathing machine that is pulled by a mule into the waves at Deauville. The movie also reminded me that Gigi is a nickname for Gilberte, which is also the name of Swann’s daughter and the narrator’s first infatuation in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. There’s also a scene in which Gigi plays hide-and-seek with other schoolgirls in the park, that echoes for me Albertine and her little band of girls in À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Proust was only two years older than Colette, and the Recherche and  Gigi very much share the same milieu.

A young woman at the beach in Deauville, France, 1920s - by Maurice-Louis Branger (1874 - 1950), French

Jean Francois Maurice & Maryse - La rencontre, Deauville n`a pas Changé

Michel Bernard

Les Forêts de Ravel

Prix littéraire du festival Livres et Musique de la ville de Deauville

«Quand Ravel leva la tête, il aperçut, à distance, debout dans l’entrée et sur les marches de l’escalier, une assistance muette. Elle ne bougeait ni n'applaudissait, dans l’espoir peut-être que le concert impromptu se prolongeât. Ils étaient ainsi quelques médecins, infirmiers et convalescents, que la musique, traversant portes et cloisons, avait un à un silencieusement rassemblés. Le pianiste joua encore la

Mazurka en ré majeur

, puis une pièce délicate et lente que personne n’identifia. Son doigt pressant la touche de la note ultime la fit longtemps résonner.»

En mars 1916, peu après avoir achevé son

Trio en la mineur

, Maurice Ravel rejoint Bar-le-Duc, puis Verdun. Il a quarante et un ans. Engagé volontaire, conducteur d’ambulance, il est chargé de transporter jusqu'aux hôpitaux de campagne des hommes broyés par l’offensive allemande. Michel Bernard le saisit à ce tournant de sa vie, l'accompagne dans son difficile retour à la vie civile et montre comment, jusqu'à son dernier soupir, «l’énorme concerto du front» n’a cessé de résonner dans l'âme de Ravel.

(via Les Forêts de Ravel de Michel Bernard - Editions Table Ronde)

I made my version of Lucifer for the silly cult series! His human form is native american!!! (Cherokee tribe) I drsw his face eventually (I got mad because I couldn't get it right 3: )

His feather headband (a type of native hairdress) is made with his own feather before he fell.

He got the native cherokee jewelry from Maurice, who got it from his mother. Maurice is part native (also cherokee) and French :3333

Dress with train, feathered hat and parasol photographed in profile at the Grand Prix of Trouville-Deauville, 1908. © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger Viollet, Parisienne de Photographie. In Copyright.

Maurice Chevalier at “The Bar du Soleil”, in Deauville. Photographed by Roger Schall, Summer 1934.

Maurice Branger - Deauville,  Calvados, France, circa 1925.

Roger Schall (Français, 1904-1995), Maurice Chevalier au Bar du Soleil, Deauville, 1934