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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the best-selling recording artists in history. She rose to fame on Broadway in Funny Girl and won an Oscar for the same role on screen (1968), and a second one for the song “Evergreen” (1977). In 1983 she made Yentl...
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Albert Camus was a French writer, philosopher and journalist who grew up in a poor district of Algiers. His novels The Stranger and The Plague and the essay The Myth of Sisyphus became key texts about a human being facing the absurd. During the war he edited the underground newspaper Combat. In...
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Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman. In the summer of 1940, after France’s defeat, he called on his compatriots from London to keep fighting and led Free France. After the liberation he headed the provisional government, and in 1958 he returned to power, introduced a new...
Weiterlesen: Charles de GaulleÉdith Piaf
Édith Piaf was the French singer who became the voice of twentieth-century France. She grew up in poverty and sang on the streets of Paris, where a cabaret owner discovered her and gave her the stage name “La Môme Piaf”, the little sparrow. Her songs “La Vie en rose”, “Hymne à l'amour”, “Milord”...
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Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was a French couturier, the founder of the House of Chanel and one of the people who shaped the look of the twentieth-century woman. She spent her childhood in the orphanage at the abbey of Aubazine and started out with a hat shop in Paris. She freed women’s clothing from...
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An actor made famous at twenty-three by Titanic who became Martin Scorsese's recurring lead: Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street. He won the Oscar for best actor on his fifth acting nomination, for The Revenant (2016). Since 1998 he has run his own...
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