Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Autant-Lara

(1901/2000)

Autant-Lara dessine les décors de Nana de Jean Renoir d’après Émile Zola. Il devient ensuite assistant–réalisateur de René Clair. Autant-Lara critiquera invariablement l’ensemble du mouvement de la Nouvelle Vague.

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Paul Azan

Paul Azan

(1874/1951)

Général de corps d’armée et historien, directeur du service historique de l’armée 1928-1933, il prit une part importante à la pacification du Maroc.

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Jean Babelon

Jean Babelon

(1889/1978)

Historian and numismatist, he spent his entire career as curator at the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which he directed between 1937 and 1961.

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Gracchus Babeuf

Gracchus Babeuf

(1760/1797)

A revolutionary, he formed the "Conspiracy of the Equals" against the Directory and was executed. His ideas inspired a school of thought, "Babouvism," which foreshadowed communism.

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