the French

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french men modern time!

1) Gerard Depardieu

2) Christian Clavier

3) Jean Reno

4) Gerard Jugnot

5) Michel Blanc

6) Thierry Lhermitte

7) Jacques Villeret

8) André Dussolier

9) Patrick Dewaere

10) Philippe Noiret

11) Daniel Auteuil

12) François Cluzet

13) Guillaume Canet

14) Alain Chabat

15) Jean-Hugues Anglade

16) Lambert Wilson

17) Romain Duris

19) Gaspard Ulliel

20) Benoit Magimel

21) Tchéky Karyo

22) Vincent Perez

23) Yvan Attal

24) Clovis Cornillac

25) Baptiste Giabiconi

26) Vincent Cassel

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French Model Dji Dieng ...5'11.5" and like a 37 or 38 inch inseam.

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French Model Dji Dieng ...5'11.5" and like a 37 or 38 inch inseam.

oh thanks very much if you can add more!!!

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French cinema

The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.

France was the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions.[1] Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle Vague, began in the country. It is noted for having a particularly strong film industry, due in part to a certain level of protection afforded it by the French government.[1] It is able to stand up well to competition when compared with the cinema industries of other countries. Characteristics of French cinema include slower plotlines, strong character development, and a deviance from happy or conclusive endings.

Apart from its strong indigenous film tradition, France has also been a gathering spot for artists from across Europe and the world. For this reason, French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema of foreign nations. Directors from nations such as Poland (Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Andrzej Żuławski), Argentina (Gaspar Noe and Edgardo Cozarinsky), Russia (Alexandre Alexeieff, Anatole Litvak) and Georgia (Gela Babluani, Otar Iosseliani) are as prominent in the ranks of French cinema as native Frenchmen. French directors have been important in the development of cinema in other countries, such as Luc Besson in the United States.

In the late 19th century, during the early years of cinema, France made many important followers. Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe and their L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat in Paris in 1895 is considered by many historians as the official birth of cinematography. Alice Guy Blaché made her first film, La Fée aux Choux, in 1896. During the next few years, filmmakers all over the world started experimenting with this new medium, and France's Georges Méliès was influential. He invented many of the techniques now common in the cinematic language, and made the first science fiction film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) in 1902).

Alice Guy Blaché was head of production at Gaumont Pictures, where she made about 400 films, from 1897 until 1906, then continued her career in the United States, as did Maurice Tourneur and Léonce Perret after World War I. During the period between World War I and World War II, Jacques Feyder became one of the founders of poetic realism in French cinema. He also dominated French Impressionist Cinema, along with Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein.

After World War I, the French film industry suffered because of a lack of capital, and film production decreased as it did in most other European countries. This allowed the United States film industry to enter the European cinema market, because American films could be sold more cheaply than European productions, since the studios already had recouped their costs in the home market. When film studios in Europe began to fail, many European countries reason began to set import barriers. France installed an import quota of 1:7, meaning for every seven foreign films imported to France, one French film was to be produced and shown in French cinemas

In 1931, Marcel Pagnol filmed the first of his great trilogy, Marius, Fanny, and César. He followed this with other films including the The Baker's Wife. Other notable films of the 1930s included René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris (1930), Jacques Feyder's Carnival in Flanders (1935), and Julien Duvivier's La belle equipe (1936). In 1935, renowned playwright and actor Sacha Guitry directed his first film and went on to make more than 30 films that were precursors to the New Wave era. In 1937, Jean Renoir, the son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, directed what many see as his first masterpiece, La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion). In 1939, Renoir directed La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game). Several critics have cited this film as one of the greatest of all-time.

Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) was filmed during World War II and released in 1945. The three-hour film was extremely difficult to make due to the Nazi occupation. Set in Paris in 1828, it was voted Best French Film of the Century in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.

The French cinema is one of at once oldest and one of the rare still autonomous cinemas at the beginning of the XXIth century. The volume of films produced every year, the presence of the national productions in cinema or on the television, make that as industry, the French cinema always exists.

Confronted with the strong competition of Hollywood from 1980s, he(it) specialized on mainly two less competitive crénaux: the French comedy on one hand and the art-house cinema on the other hand. Since the environment(middle) of the 1990s, several kinds(genres) abandoned(given up) in the American major companies during a time(weather) are again produced in France.

The exceptional quality of the network of rooms art house makes of France a particularly filmgoing country and a Paris - where the concentration of rooms art house is the most important - the world capital of the art movies. It is indeed in Paris where the variety of programming is most important to the world, side by side with New York and Tokyo

[Jennka]

Noemie and Dji are just gorgeous

[lisa-1]

Noemie and Dji are just gorgeous

yes you're right!!! beautiful girls from france!!!

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France has long been considered a center for European art and music. The country has a wide variety of indigenous folk music, as well as styles played by immigrants from Africa, Latin America and Asia. In the field of classical music, France has produced a number of legendary composers, while modern pop music has seen the rise of popular French hip hop, techno/funk, and pop performers.

French music history dates back to organum in the 10th century, followed by the Notre Dame School, an organum composition style. Troubadour songs of chivalry and courtly love were composed in the Occitan language between the 10th and 13th centuries, and the Trouvère poet-composers flourished in Northern France during this period. By the end of the 12th century, a form of song called the motet arose, accompanied by traveling musicians called jongleurs. In the 14th century, France produced two notable styles of music, Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior. During the Renaissance, Burgundy became a major center for musical development. This was followed by the rise of chansons and the Burgundian School.

The first French opera may be Akébar roi du Mogol, first performed in Carpentras in 1646. It was followed by the team of Pierre Perrin and Cambert, whose Pastoral in Music, performed in Issy, was a success, and the pair moved to Paris to produce Pomone (1671) and Les Peines et les Plaisirs de l'Amour (1672).

Jean-Baptiste Lully, who had become well-known for composing ballets for Louis XIV, began creating a French version of the Italian opera seria, a kind of tragic opera known as tragédie lyrique or tragédie en musique - see (French lyric tragedy). His first was Cadmus from 1673. Lully's forays into operatic tragedy were accompanied by the pinnacle of French theatrical tragedy, led by Corneille and Racine.

Lully also developed the common beat patterns used by conductors to this day, and was the first to take the role of leading the orchestra from the position of the first violin.

The French composer, Georges Bizet, composed Carmen, one of the most well known and popular operas.

One of the major French composers of the time, and one of the most innovative composers of the early Romantic era, was Hector Berlioz and Frederic Chopin

In the late 19th century, pioneers like Georges Bizet, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy revitalized French music. The last two had an enormous impact on 20th century music - both in France and abroad - and influenced many major composers like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky. Erik Satie was also a very significant composer from that era. His music is difficult to classify but sounds surprisingly ahead of its time.

The late 1800s saw the dawn of the music hall when Yvette Guilbert was a major star. The era lasted through to the 1930s and saw the likes of Félix Mayol, Lucienne Boyer, Marie-Louise Damien, Marie Dubas, Fréhel, Georges Guibourg, Tino Rossi, Jean Sablon, Charles Trenet and Maurice Chevalier, Édith Piaf. During the 50s and 60s, it was the golden age of Chanson française (Monique Serf (Barbara) Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Charles Aznavour, Alain Barrière and Jacques Brel).

American and British rock and roll was also popular in the 1950s and 60s, and indigenous rock achieved some domestic success. Punk rock and heavy metal found some listeners.

In particular, electronic music, as exemplified by Jean Michel Jarre, achieved a wide French audience. The French electro-pop bands Air and Daft Punk and techno artists Laurent Garnier and David Guetta found a wide audience in the late 1990s and early 2000s, both locally and internationally. Electronica groups such as Télépopmusik, Justice, and M83 continue to enjoy success.

Algerian rai also found a large French audience, especially Khaled. Moroccan chaabi and gnawa is also popular.

American hip hop music was exported to France in the 1980s, and French rappers and DJs, like MC Solaar, also had some success.

Chanson française is the typical style of French music (chanson means "song" in French) and is still very popular in France. The most important classic artists include of the Édith Piaf, Monique Serf (Barbara) Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, Gilbert Bécaud, Salvatore Adamo, and Jacques Brel plus the more art-house musicians like Brigitte Fontaine.

During the 70s, new artists modernized the Chanson française, (Joe Dassin, Renaud, Francis Cabrel, Alain Souchon, Jacques Higelin, Lavilliers, Alain Chamfort) and also in the 80s (Étienne Daho, Têtes Raides) till now (Matthieu Chedid, Jean-Louis Murat, Miossec, Mathieu Boogaerts, Daniel Darc, Vincent Delerm).

The more commercial and pop part of "chanson" is called "variété", and included artists including Francis Cabrel, Alain Souchon, Laurent Voulzy, and Jean-Jacques Goldman. More recently, the success of the Star Academy television show has spawned a new generation of young pop music stars including Jenifer Bartoli and Nolwenn Leroy; and the superstar status of diva Mylene Farmer inspired pop rock performers like Zazie, Lorie and Alizée, and R&B-influenced singers like Nadiya and Ophelie Winter.

In the 1950s, Elvis Presley and rock and roll made inroads in the French music scene. It produced stars like Johnny Hallyday, Richard Anthony, Dick Rivers and Claude François, the popular yé-yé girls like Sylvie Vartan and France Gall and some various music genre like Dalida, who can do anything like Italian style music in 50s; twist, pop and rock in the 60s (and later pop, disco, new wave and rock in the 70s and 80s). These were popular female teen idols, and included Françoise Hardy, who was the first to write her own songs.

Singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg began as a jazz musician in the 1950s and spanned several eras of French popular music including pop, rock, reggae, new wave, disco and even hip hop filtered through his unique sense of black humor, heavily laden with sex.

[Jennka]

I love Juliette!! She was so wonderful in Chocolate

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oh great idea! I love France!

[Jennka]

thankx for all of that hun

[lisa-1]

thankx for all of that hun

Kisss Jennka! if someone wants to add pics of Cannes it's cool!

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fashion:Christian Lacroix (official website)

2007-2008

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thanks Lisa you are great

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thanks Lisa you are great

[Laffy]

Wow! Great job France is beautiful and my sister is moving there in two years. I went to versailles this past summer and it was magnificentttt!!

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Wow! Great job France is beautiful and my sister is moving there in two years. I went to versailles this past summer and it was magnificentttt!!

thanks!!! If you go to Paris come to see me!! Versailles is very beautiful indeed!