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The Horseman on the Roof (orig. French Le Hussard sur le toit) is a 1951 adventure novel by French writer Jean Giono. [1] It tells the story of Angelo Pardi, a young Italian carbonaro colonel of hussars, caught up in the 1832 cholera epidemic in Provence. In 1995, it was made into a film of the same name directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.
The Bas-Saint-Laurent (French pronunciation: [ba sɛ̃ lɔʁɑ̃], "Lower Saint-Lawrence") is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlantic Ocean and is often nicknamed "Bas-du-Fleuve" (Lower-River).
The Horseman on the Roof (French: Le hussard sur le toit) is a 1995 French film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.Based on the 1951 French novel Le hussard sur le toit by Jean Giono, the film follows the adventures of a young Italian nobleman in France raising money for the Italian revolution against Austria during a time of cholera.
Le Bœuf sur le toit was a success from the day it opened. [5] It quickly became the center of Paris cabaret society and reigned throughout the twenties. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] On opening night pianist Jean Wiéner , who Moysès had brought with him from the Gaya, played Gershwin tunes with Cocteau and Milhaud providing accompaniment on the drums.
Le Bœuf sur le toit (literally "the ox on the roof"), Op. 58 is a short piece for small orchestra by the composer Darius Milhaud, written in 1919–20.Milhaud conceived the piece as incidental music for any one of the comic silent films of Charlie Chaplin, but it received its premiere as the music for a ballet staged by Jean Cocteau in February 1920.
Important towns near Saint-Léon-le-Grand are Amqui at 12 km and Lac-au-Saumon at 16 km to the east. Causapscal at 27 km to the east as well as Sayabec at 33 km to the north. Saint-Léon-le-Grand is located on Route 195 halfway between Amqui and Saint-Zénon-du-Lac-Humqui. The territory of Saint-Léon-le-Grand covers an area of 127 km2.
This article is a list of historic places in Bas-Saint-Laurent, entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. All addresses are the administrative Region 01.
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