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33-840: Prévert was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine and grew up in Paris. After receiving his Certificat d'études upon completing his primary education, he quit school and went to work in Le Bon Marché , a major department store in Paris. In 1918, he was called up for military service in the First World War . After this, he was sent to the Near East to defend French interests there. He died of lung cancer in Omonville-la-Petite , on 11 April 1977. He had been working on

66-526: A gun with which he had intended to shoot François. Instead, he taunted François with allusions to his sexual encounters with Françoise. Enraged, François picked up the gun and shot Valentin. Alone in his room and out of cigarettes, François realizes he has no hope of escape. He does not know that Françoise, delirious with guilt, is now being tended to by Clara. The police decide to throw tear gas into François's room in an attempt to subdue him. But just before they do, François commits suicide by shooting himself in

99-606: A long working relationship with Paul Grimault , also a member of Groupe Octobre . Together they wrote the screenplays of a number of animated movies, starting with the short "The Little Soldier" ("Le Petit Soldat", 1947). They worked together until his death in 1977, when he was finishing The King and the Mocking Bird ( Le Roi et l'Oiseau ), a second version of which was released in 1980. Prévert adapted several Hans Christian Andersen tales into animated or mixed live-action/animated movies, often in versions loosely connected to

132-512: A number of screenplays for the film director Marcel Carné . Among them were the scripts for Drôle de drame ( Bizarre, Bizarre , 1937), Quai des brumes ( Port of Shadows , 1938), Le Jour se lève ( Daybreak , 1939), Les Visiteurs du soir ( The Night Visitors , 1942) and Children of Paradise ( Les Enfants du Paradis , 1945). The last of these regularly gains a high placing in lists of best films ever and earned him an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay. His poems were

165-432: A relationship with the older Valentin, a narcissistic, manipulative dog trainer. Embittered, François began a relationship with Clara, Valentin's former assistant in his dog show. Over the next few weeks, Clara fell in love with François, but he preferred to have only a casual relationship with her; she knew it was because he had continued to see Françoise, with whom he was still in love. One day, Valentin told François that he

198-614: Is twinned with: Le Jour se l%C3%A8ve Le jour se lève ( [lə ʒuʁ sə lɛv] , "The day rises"; also known as Daybreak ) is a 1939 French film directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert , based on a story by Jacques Viot . It is considered one of the principal examples of the French film movement known as poetic realism . In 1952, it was included in the first Sight & Sound top ten greatest films list. Foundry worker François shoots and kills Valentin. François then locks himself in his apartment. He

231-581: Is an urban commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the Bois de Boulogne , the area is composed of mostly select residential neighbourhoods, as well as many corporate headquarters and a handful of foreign embassies. One of the most affluent areas of France, it is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. Together with

264-475: Is soon besieged by the police, who fail in an attempt to shoot their way into the room. As they regroup to decide how to apprehend him, François begins to reminisce on how he came to be in this predicament. Several months earlier, he had begun to date Françoise, a florist's assistant. They bonded over the similarities in their names and the fact that they both were orphans. François fell in love with her and hoped to marry her, but she turned him down in order to have

297-442: The 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris , the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent and prestigious residential area in the whole of France. As of 2020 , it is the commune with the fourth highest median per capita income (€52,570 per year) in France. Originally, Pont de Neuilly was a small hamlet under the jurisdiction of Villiers, a larger settlement mentioned in medieval sources as early as 832 and now absorbed by

330-467: The Synagogue de Neuilly was founded on Rue Ancelle, the oldest synagogue in the Paris suburbs. On 2 May 1897, the commune name officially became Neuilly-sur-Seine (meaning "Neuilly upon Seine "), in order to distinguish it from the many communes of France also called Neuilly . Most people, however, continue to refer to Neuilly-sur-Seine as simply "Neuilly". During the 1900 Summer Olympics , it hosted

363-583: The basque pelota events. The American Hospital of Paris was founded in 1906. In 1919, the Treaty of Neuilly was signed with Bulgaria in Neuilly-sur-Seine to conclude its role in World War I. In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne , which was previously divided between the communes of Neuilly-sur-Seine and Boulogne-Billancourt , was annexed in its entirety by the city of Paris. Neuilly is one of

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396-577: The Surrealist movement. Together with the writers Raymond Queneau and Marcel Duhamel , he was a member of the Rue du Château group. He was also a member of the agitprop theater company Groupe Octobre where he helped craft a left-wing cinema in support of the causes of the Popular Front . Prévert remained supportive of left-wing causes throughout his life. In 1971, he wrote a poem in support of

429-559: The basis for a film by the director and documentarian Joris Ivens , The Seine Meets Paris ( La Seine a rencontré Paris , 1957), about the River Seine . The poem was read as narration during the film by singer Serge Reggiani . In 2007, a filmed adaptation of Prévert's poem "To Paint the Portrait of a Bird" was directed by Seamus McNally, featuring T.D. White and Antoine Ray- English translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Prévert had

462-700: The city of Lund in Sweden, the Forest of the Londe in Normandy , or the many English placenames containing "lound", "lownde", or "lund" in their name, or ending in "-land". This interesting theory, however, fails to explain why the "d" of lund is missing in Lulliacum or Lugniacum . Concerning the discrepancy in names over the centuries, the most probable explanation is that the original name Lulliacum or Lugniacum

495-581: The commune of Levallois-Perret . It was not until 1222 that the little settlement of Neuilly, established on the banks of the Seine , was mentioned for the first time in a charter of the Abbey of Saint-Denis : the name was recorded in Medieval Latin as Portus de Lulliaco , meaning "Port of Lulliacum". In 1224 another charter of Saint-Denis recorded the name as Lugniacum . In a sales contract dated 1266,

528-601: The commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine ceded part of its territory to the new commune of Levallois-Perret in 1866. It was the site of the Château de Neuilly , an important royal residence during the July Monarchy . Neuilly-sur-Seine is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 1 : Porte Maillot (with a direct access to RER line C), Les Sablons and Pont de Neuilly . RATP Bus service includes

561-739: The communist Angela Davis after her arrest . Prévert's poems were collected and published in his books: Paroles ( Words ) (1946), Spectacle (1951), La Pluie et le beau temps ( Rain and Good Weather ) (1955), Histoires ( Stories ) (1963), Fatras (1971) and Choses et autres ( Things and Others ) (1973). His poems are often about life in Paris and life after the Second World War . They are widely taught in schools in France, and frequently appear in French language textbooks published worldwide. Some, such as "Déjeuner du Matin", are also often taught in American upper-level French classes, for

594-412: The distribution rights of the French film and sought to buy up and destroy every copy of the film that they could obtain. For a time it was feared that they had been successful and that the film was lost, but it re-appeared in the 1950s and has subsequently stood alongside Les Enfants du paradis as one of the finest achievements of the partnership of Carné and Prévert. In 2014, a restored version of

627-521: The fall of the Roman Empire and the Germanic invasions that the area of Neuilly was deforested and settled. Thus, they think that the name Lulliacum or Lugniacum comes from the ancient Germanic word lund meaning "forest", akin to Old Norse lundr meaning "grove", to which the placename suffix "-acum" was added. The Old Norse word lundr has indeed left many placenames across Europe, such as

660-634: The heart. Le jour se lève was released in France in June 1939 and shown in the US the following year. In France, however, the film was banned in 1940 by the Vichy government on the grounds it was demoralizing. After the war's end, the film was shown again to wide acclaim. In 1947, it was again suppressed when RKO Radio Pictures wanted to remake the film in Hollywood (as The Long Night ). The company acquired

693-506: The last scene of the animated movie Le Roi et l'Oiseau ( The King and the Mockingbird ) with his friend and collaborator Paul Grimault . When the film was released in 1980, it was dedicated to Prévert's memory, and on opening night, Grimault kept the seat next to him empty. His dog Auto was given to a family friend after his death. When Prévert was attending primary school, he at first hated writing. Later, he participated actively in

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726-935: The later American singers Joan Baez and Nat King Cole . In 1961, French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg paid tribute to "Les feuilles mortes" in his own song "La chanson de Prévert". "Les feuilles mortes" was also translated into German by the German poet and Liedermacher (singer-songwriter) Wolf Biermann , titled "Welke Blätter", and was performed by him and others. The British remix DJs Coldcut released their own version in 1993. Another German version has been published and covered by Didier Caesar (alias Dieter Kaiser), which he named "Das welke Laub". "Les feuilles mortes" also bookends Iggy Pop 's 2009 album Préliminaires . Prévert's poems are translated into many languages worldwide. Many translators have translated his poems into English. The poet and translator Suman Pokhrel has translated some of his poems into Nepali . Prévert wrote

759-641: The lines 43, 73, 82, 93, 157, 158, 163, 164, 174 [1] Night Bus lines include N11 and N24. Located near France's main business district La Défense , Neuilly-sur-Seine also hosts several corporate headquarters: Bureau Veritas , Chanel , Marathon Media , JCDecaux , Thales Group , M6 Group , Sephora , PricewaterhouseCoopers France, Parfums Christian Dior (in 2019), Orangina France, Grant Thornton International France. Public schools in Neuilly: Domestic private schools: International private schools: Post-secondary: Neuilly-sur-Seine

792-475: The many settlements of France called Neuilly (a frequent place name whose etymology is completely different from the special case of Neuilly-sur-Seine). Until the French Revolution , the settlement was often referred to as Port-Neuilly , but at the creation of French communes in 1790 the "Port" was dropped and the newly born commune was named simply Neuilly . On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris

825-417: The most right-wing towns in France; regularly voting for the candidate of the traditional right in landslide margins. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy was mayor of Neuilly from 1983 to 2007. Amidst a poor national showing of 20%, Neuilly gave right-wing candidate François Fillon 65% of its vote in the first round of the 2017 presidential election . The population data in the table and graph below refer to

858-565: The name was also recorded as Luingni . In 1316, however, in a ruling of the parlement of Paris, the name was recorded as Nully . In a document dated 1376, the name was again recorded as Nulliacum (the Medieval Latin version of Nully ). Then in the following centuries the name recorded alternated between Luny and Nully , and it is only after 1648 that the name was definitely set as Nully . Various explanations and etymologies have been proposed to explain these discrepancies in

891-434: The names of Neuilly recorded over the centuries. The original name of Neuilly may have been Lulliacum or Lugniacum , and that it was only later corrupted into Nulliacum / Nully . Some interpret Lulliacum or Lugniacum as meaning "estate of Lullius (or Lunius)", probably a Gallo-Roman landowner. This interpretation is based on the many placenames of France made up of the names of Gallo-Roman landowners and suffixed with

924-587: The original. Two of these were with Grimault, including The King and the Mocking Bird , while another was with his brother Pierre Prévert ( fr ). These include compilations of his poetry but also collaborations with Marc Chagall and Humanist photographers on patriotic and poignant albums of imagery of post-war Paris. Prévert wrote the scenarios and sometimes the dialogue in the following films: Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine ( French pronunciation: [nøji syʁ sɛn] ; lit. 'Neuilly-on- Seine '), also known simply as Neuilly ,

957-535: The students to learn basics. Some of Prévert's poems, such as "Les feuilles mortes" (" Autumn Leaves "), "L'Addition", "La grasse matinée" ("Sleeping in"), "Les bruits de la nuit" ("The sounds of the night") and "Chasse à l'enfant" ("The hunt for the child") were set to music by Joseph Kosma —and in some cases by Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six , Christiane Verger, Marjo Tal , and Hanns Eisler . They have been sung by prominent French vocalists, including Marianne Oswald , Yves Montand , and Édith Piaf , as well as by

990-456: The traditional placename suffix "-acum". Other researchers, however, object that it is unlikely that Neuilly owes its name to a Gallo-Roman patronym , because during the Roman occupation of Gaul the area of Neuilly was inside the large Forest of Rouvray , of which the Bois de Boulogne is all that remains today, and was probably not a settlement. These researchers contend that it is only after

1023-421: Was enlarged by annexing neighbouring communes. On that occasion, a part of the territory of Neuilly-sur-Seine was annexed by the city of Paris, and forms now the neighbourhood of Ternes , in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. On 11 January 1867, part of the territory of Neuilly-sur-Seine was detached and merged with a part of the territory of Clichy to create the commune of Levallois-Perret . On 4 June 1878,

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1056-437: Was in fact Françoise's father; she was the product of a youthful dalliance. Later that afternoon, François asked Françoise if Valentin was telling the truth. She denied it, saying that Valentin habitually made up stories. But she also confessed that she was falling in love with François and wanted to be with him. Valentin confronted François in his apartment. He admitted to having lied about being Françoise's father and brandished

1089-410: Was later corrupted into Nulliacum / Nully by inversion of the consonants, perhaps under the influence of an old Celtic word meaning "swampy land, boggy land" (as was the land around Neuilly-sur-Seine in ancient times) which is found in the name of many French places anciently covered with water, such as Noue, Noë, Nouan, Nohant, etc. Or perhaps the consonants were simply inverted under the influence of

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