Michel Cournot
Michel Cournot (1 May 1922 – 8 February 2007) was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. His only film as a director, Les Gauloises bleues, was due to be entered at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled because of the events of May 1968 in France. He received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989, as cowriter with Claude Fournier and Marie-José Raymond of the Canadian television miniseries The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir).
Michel Cournot
- Name
- Michel Cournot
- Born
- 1 May 1922
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 8 February 2007
- Occupation
- Journalist, screenwriter, film director
- Nationality
- France
- Education
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand · Faculty of Arts of Paris
- Honours
- Prix des Deux Magots · Fénéon Prize for literature · Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Languages
- French
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Michel Cournot studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand and Faculty of Arts of Paris. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Le Nouvel Obs. Distinctions recorded are Prix des Deux Magots, Fénéon Prize for literature and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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• Name — Michel Cournot • Born — 1 May 1922 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 8 February 2007 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Journalist, screenwriter, film director • Years Active — 1961–1988
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Michel Cournot (1 May 1922 – 8 February 2007) was a journalist and screenwriter. Michel Cournot was born on 1 May 1922 in Paris. Michel Cournot died on 8 February 2007 in Paris.
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• Les Gauloises bleues (1968)
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17th arrondissement of Paris.
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- 1.Relevé des fichiers de l'Insee
- 2.Brigitte Salino. Michel Cournot, critique et écrivain. lemonde.fr. 9 février 2007.
- 3.Article auteur1=Michel Cournot Il était une fois… Les résistants du 11 novembre 1940 Le Monde numéro= 22 avril 2022 issn= e-issn= lire en https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2022/04/22/il-etait-une-fois-les-resistants-du-11-novembre-1940_6123255_1819218.html consulté le=24 avril 2022 archives .
- 4.La mort de Michel Cournot. nouvelobs.com. 10 février 2007.
- 5.Audiard par Audiard, éditions René Chateau.
- 6.Mathilde la Bardonnie. Cournot, Calme bleu. liberation.fr. 10 février 2007.
- 7.J'aime, j'estime, j'admire. L'Obs. 2007-02-17.
- 8.Entretien de Bernard Guetta avec François Kraus le 25 mai 2004.
- 9.La vie passera comme un rêve. Robert Laffont. 2009.
- 10.Article auteur1= La mort de Michel Cournot L'Obs numéro= 9 février 2007 issn= e-issn= lire en https://www.nouvelobs.com/culture/20070209.OBS1662/la-mort-de-michel-cournot.html consulté le=24 avril 2022 id= .
- 11.Jérôme Garcin. Michel Cournot, le liseur. nouvelobs.com. 21 avril 2012.
- 12.Archives des nominations et promotions dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- 13.Thomas Sotinel, « Cannes 2017 : Le Redoutable », clichés de « JLG » en mai », Le Monde, 22 mai 2017 (consulté le 7 juin 2017)
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