Kusai Abusafi Queen Margot La Reine Margot is a French film directed and produced by Patrice Chereau. It is a 1994 production based on the Novel La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas in 1845. It stars many French famous actors such as Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Virna Lisi and Vincent Pérez; and was also projected to win many awards. A slightly altered, translated version of this film was released under the name Queen Margot in the United States, Canada and in the UK. The film was high budget production but also a box office success, although it was only given a limited theatrical release it grossed a little over 2 Million dollars in the United States, as well as in other countries such as Germany, Argentine and France where it gained close to 3 million dollars. Queen Margot ended up winning many noticeable awards such as the Jury Prize and Best Actress Award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, as well as five César Awards. It was later shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. …show more content…
Catherine (the mother) decides to offer the prominent Huguenot and king of Navarre Henri de Bourbon her daughter Margot for marriage as an overture of goodwill, although deceitfully a part of the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, were thousands of Protestants were slaughtered. Despite the attempts of Margot to put an end to the marriage; the mother insists and the marriage goes
The money brought in from the movie was massive for it’s time . When first proposed the plan for the budget was $350,000.This was later change the scheduled for a 24-day shoot and a budget of $454,864.In the first month it made a million in the U.S. before the end of the year it made an additional 2.5 million. Even though it wasn’t the top selling movie of the year it still made a good amount of money.
During the Holocaust in 1933 a lot of Jewish parents were trying to hide their children to protect them from harm or death by the Nazis. The Nazis were trying to kill all Jewish people. There are a lot of people that were risking their lives for the children of Jews. I’m going to be talking about one of the woman that helped save some children. Caecilia Antonia Maria Loots was a hero of the holocaust because she helped save children while putting her life at risk.
Gertrude Ederle was born in New York City on October 23, 1905. She was one of five children of Henry and Anna Ederle, German immigrants who owned a butcher shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side. From a young age she was passionate about swimming, which she learned at the local public pool and at the New Jersey beach where her family spent summers. As a kid she left school to practice as an athletic swimmer. Later she joined the Women’s Swimming Association. She had her first win at the age of 16, between 1921 and 1925 holding 29 records. Ederle swam at the Olympic Games in Paris, where her freestyle team won three straight medals. In 1925, she began training to swim across live television. Twenty-one miles of water between England and the European mainland. Other men swimmers had already crossed the channel but she was trying to be the first woman to ever achieve the goal.
Josquin Des Prez, born in 1440/1445, was a French composer of many important masses for the 16th century. Even noticed in The New Grove HIGH RENAISSANCE MASTERS, for being one of the best composer it the later 16th century. “Josquin Desprez, one of the greatest composers of the entire renaissance and certainly the most important before the second half of the 16th century.”1 The Ave Maria Virgo Serena. was motet written for the church. Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum, virgo serena or Hail Mary. Full of grace, the lord is with thee serene Virgin was from a Gregorian chant. Josquin composed this piece during his service at one of the French and Italian courts. Josquin is wildly known to be a master of the Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music. He
Do you have a love for a sport or hobby that you been playing since you were very young? Well, Simone Biles had been having a love for gymnastics since she was just six years old and she started training at eight years old with her coach Aimme Boorman. Simone Biles had the best Olympics because she won the most medals out of all the gymnasts that competed and she dedicates 300 days out of the whole year training. However, people think Michael Phelps did the best because he won the most gold medals out of all USA Olympic medalist.
This is the third film in the trilogy, it made a total of $572 million dollars and had a budget of around 35 million dollars. The film is 2 hours 11 minutes long
In 1553, Mary I became the Queen of England. Mary married King Philip of Spain in order to secure Catholicism in England. Elizabeth unwillingly became the leader of Mary’s opposition, the British Protestants of the time. She attempted to force her younger sister, Elizabeth, into attending Catholic mass in order to set an example for her followers. Elizabeth was raised Protestant and didn’t want to convert, so she avoided mass by complaining of stomach aches. A man named Thomas Wyatt sent a letter informing Elizabeth that he was planning a rebellion in order to prevent the marriage between the two royals.
In 1533, at the age of fourteen, Catherine married fourteen-year-old Henry, the second son of King Francis I of France. Pope Clement arranged Catherine’s wedding. Their marriage was meant to bring great wealth. On March 31,1547, her husband became King Henri II, and Catherine became the Queen of France. She loved Henry from the start of their marriage, but he was more interested in his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, a French noblewoman. Catherine had ten children, three who would temporarily reign as king. All of Catherine's children’s names were, Francis II, Elisabeth of Valois, Claude of Valois, Louis, Charles IX, Henry III, Marguerite of Valois, Francois, Duke of Anjou, Victoria of Valois, and Joan of Valois. Unfortunately, three of them didn’t survive infancy, but four of their boys and 3 of their girls survived. At the wedding of Philip II and Elisabeth, who was the teena...
Maria Tallchief was considered America's first major prima ballerina, and was the first Native American to hold the rank. Maria was a member of the Osage Nation, Tallchief’s full name is Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief, but she was also known as “Betty”. Her parents were Alexander Joseph Tallchief and Ruth Porter, of Scottish-Irish descent. Tallchief had five siblings, three were from her father’s first marriage.
In the early stages of Catherine's life the surfacing modern age was bringing with it social turmoil which spread throughout Europe (Giordani 3). During Catherine's lifetime, according to Mary Ann Sullivan in her essay “St. Catherine of Siena,” the center of Catholic rule fluctuated between Rome and Avignon and contributed to a schism between popes in Italy and France (1). Catherine was born 23rd in a line of 25 children and, according to Sullivan “even at a young age, [she] sensed the troubled society around her and wanted to help” (1). While her parents were not exceptionally religious, St. Catherine's biographer Blessed Raymond of Capua discusses Catherine's early zeal for Catholic practices: “When she was about five she learned the Hail Mary, and repeated it over and over again as often as she could…she was inspired by heaven to address the Blessed Virgin in this way whenever she went up and down stairs, stopping to kneel on each step as she did so” (24). Her devotion to the Virgin Mary would become especially important in a vision she had around this time while walking with her brother to visit one of her sisters.
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One of the most famous artists of the 60s known for his installation arts is known by many people throughout the world as – Walter De Maria. Born and raised in the United States, he was gifted with both the talent of music and art. He was born after the modernism period, which, for him was a big advantage since his timeline was filled with ideas and creations of other great artists and musicians. His way of practice is connected with Minimal art, Conceptual art, and Land art of the 1960s.
The movie’s budget was $24 million and it grossed over $15.9 million on box office. The film won the best director award at the 2014 Cannes film and was the first film since 2008 to be nominated for the best director but not the best picture.
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre resulted in a massive number of deaths including the assassination of Gaspard de Coligny. The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre started with Catherine De Medici planning to assassinate Gaspard de Coligny because he was going to go to war with the her son, King Charles IX. So King Charles IX and his men went and killed Gaspard de Coligny during the nighttime, and the next day it was chaotic in France, turning into a civil war. The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France during 1572 resulted in a massive number of deaths to the Huguenot population, a very religious group of French Protestants; this massacre led to larger civil war in France that would harm the country.
In the book Mary,Bloody Mary, written by Carolyn Meyer, a young Mary tells the reader about her life as royalty or at least her time in royalty. The nine year old Mary explains how her father, King Henry, has just betrothed her to the king of France. She however did not like this and was overwhelmed with anger towards her father, for she did not want to marry the king of France, Mary wanted to chose who she would marry herself,but she knows she can not do this. There was soon a banquet for Mary and the king of France, this were Mary sees Lady Anne for the first time. A few days later Mary is told she will be crowned Princess of wales but after she is told this her father sends her away and her mother can not accompany her.