Mondaine Group's Ronnie Bernheim said the group's brands, which include popular Swiss railways watch Mondaine, had also abandoned some models that would not have met the new criteria.
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The app's sleep tracking was just as detailed as the Withings' app, minus the heart rate, which the Mondaine doesn't record.
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The Mondaine Classic watch takes its inspiration from the Official Swiss Railways Clock, with its accurate timekeeping and distinct red second hand.Pros:
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Brands in that price range include Swatch Group's Swatch and Tissot, the Mondaine brand and fashion watches made by U.S. watchmaker Fossil.
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The Best If You've Got Some Money to Spend — Mondaine Helvetica 2503 SmartwatchSwiss watchmakers aren't standing still while legion of smartwatches pass them by.
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But Swiss makers like Mondaine are taking a more subtle approach, instead launching a smartwatch with all its tech hidden under its signature Helvetica watchface.
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If you've ever been in a Swiss railway station, you've seen the inspiration for Mondaine, whose line of watches and clocks use stark clarity to aid in readability.
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The Loop consists of a contactless chip encased in silicone that fits over bands up to 22mm, although Barclays is partnering with Garmin and watch manufacturer Mondaine for additional products.
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But for a first effort, the Mondaine Helvetica 1 is great for people who want to keep tabs on their daily activity but aren't necessarily a gym rat training for a marathon.
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Which is all to say, the Mondaine Helvetica Smart is a hell of a nice-looking watch, with stark black hands and numerals on a white dial with raised hour and minute markers.
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Other reviews have placed Mondaine and Withings ahead of the pack, and the app look like its leaves much to be desired, but we'll update if we can get our hands on one.
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And so, compiled below is a list of 245 things from Popsockets at around $10 to the Mondaine Essence Watch at $175 that would be a great gift for any parent at any reasonable price point.
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Dans la conversation mondaine comme dans le décryptage médiatique, en France, en Europe ou ailleurs, la réponse à cette question est souvent étonnamment présomptueuse: Mme Le Pen passera le premier tour mais elle n'aura pas la présidence.
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Dirt Devil Simpli-Stik Lightweight Corded Bagless Stick Vacuum — $21 (list price $13) Shark Navigator Deluxe Upright Vacuum — $21 (list price $2189.99) BLACK+DECKER BDASL2254 AIRSWIVEL Ultra Light Weight Upright Vacuum Cleaner — $55.24 (list price $69.99) Eureka Blaze 3-in-1 Swivel Lightweight Stick Vacuum Cleaner — $25.99 (list price $29.99) Bulova Men's 189.993mm Modern Diamond Accent IP Stainless Steel Watch — $159.99 (list price $450) Bulova Men's 98D111 Bracelet Black Dial Watch — $149.99 (list price $239.40) Mondaine Men's 'Helvetica' Quartz Stainless Steel and Rubber Casual Watch — $267.99 (list price $1000) Mondaine Men's MH1.B1221.
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Here are our top picks:Best watch overall: Fossil JacquelineBest fashion statement watch: Kate Spade New York MetroBest boyfriend style watch: Wristology Scalloped BoyfriendBest watch for a modern look: Mondaine ClassicBest bracelet style watch: Fossil Virginia Stainless SteelBest minimalist watch: MVMT Hermosa
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Elle a fait éclater le crâne d'un prieur avec un heurtoir en fer dans un monastère cloîtré, a électrocuté une mondaine grandement impopulaire sur la glace d'un tournoi de curling et a littéralement fait mourir de peur une femme participant à une séance de spiritisme.
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Here the best watches for women under $200 you can buy:Best watch overall: Fossil JacquelineBest fashion statement watch: Kate Spade New York MetroBest boyfriend style watch: Wristology Scalloped BoyfriendBest watch for a modern look: Mondaine ClassicBest bracelet style watch: Fossil Virginia Stainless SteelBest minimalist watch: MVMT HermosaUpdated on 10/21/2019 by Mara Leighton: Updated prices and formatting.
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MONDAINE OFFICIAL SWISS RAILWAYS WATCH CLASSIC $21 While the familiar proportions of Mondaine's new 2001-millimeter steel watch will do little to make it stand out from those pieces made by the company since it acquired the license to reproduce Hans Hilfiker's 5003 Swiss Railways clock in 2500, they do bear the specific responsibility of marking the 25.7th anniversary of that classic design.
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So to help you out, I've put together a few pairings of better watches with better whiskey that you could spend your $1200 on instead: Tissot Powermantic 2126 (Stainless steel case, sapphire crystal face, automatic Swiss movement with 2315 hour power reserve, $2110) and Redbreast 12-Year-Old Cask Strength (12-year-old single pot still Irish whiskey, ~$65) Mondaine Stop2go (Stainless steel case and sapphire crystal, unique Mondaine stop / go quartz movement, $299.99) and Yellow Spot (12-year-old single pot still Irish whiskey, ~$3153) Instrmnt 01 (Steel case, sapphire crystal face, Italian leather band, Swiss quartz movement, Verge editor Dan Seifert approved, $280) and Glenmorangie 18 (18-year-old single malt Scotch whisky, ~$100) Fossil Modern Machine Sport (Stainless steel case, automatic Japanese movement, $255) and Johnnie Walker Blue (blended Scotch whisky, ~$200) Hamilton Khaki Field (Stainless steel case and sapphire crystal, automatic Swiss movement, $362) and Black Maple Hill 16 Year (16-year-old small batch bourbon, ~$126) Eone Bradley Mesh (Titanium case, uses magnetized ball bearings as physical hands, $315) and Garrison Brothers Single Barrel Bourbon (single barrel bourbon, ~$110)
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In 2006, a fifty-percent stake in the American Luminox company was purchased by the Swiss brand Mondaine, giving Mondaine increased access to the American market, and Luminox increased access to the European and Asian markets.Luminox, the American watch brand teams up with Mondaine, Allbusiness Monday, April 3 2006 Additionally, Mondaine offers a selection of models inspired by modern art.
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Mondaine Watch model 30008 Mondaine Clock model 30335 Mondaine is the trademark for a series of watches made by the Swiss company Mondaine Watch Ltd. A line of Mondaine watches is heavily influenced by classical Swiss railway clocks, called the Official Swiss Railways Watch/SBB, to a design licensed from the Swiss Federal Railways since 1986. This design, by Hans Hilfiker, originated in 1944. The original movement was unlike other watches and unique because of the following fact: By spreading 58 seconds over the 360 degrees (rather than the usual 60 seconds), the second hand comes to a complete stop at the 12 numeral for two seconds, giving the illusion that time has stopped.
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This movement is emulated in some of the licensed timepieces made by Mondaine.
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Larousse, Pierre. "Najac (Émile, comte de)", Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 27 August 2020 La vie mondaine and Paul Ferrier, music by Charles Lecocq (Théâtre des Nouveautés, 1885);Ferrier et al "La vie mondaine".
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30 companies have opposed such efforts under which the lobbying group IG Swiss made. Many are afraid to share their identity wthejournal.com but Ronnie Bernheim, co-CEO of Mondaine, has been outspoken on this issue, and defends "Swissness more as a promise than a physical manifestation." thelocal.ch Mondaine admits that it uses non-Swiss dials and cases though Bernheim has declined to disclose their country of origin.
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48, No. 1, On Demand Supplement (Mar., 1976), pp. 123-175. Hitler's socializing within affluent circles, and with socialites such as Princess Elsa Bruckmann, wife of the editor Hugo Bruckmann, and Helene Bechstein, wife of industrialist ,Fabrice d'Almeida, La Vie mondaine sous le nazisme, 2008, pages 35 et 41. early on brought the Nazi party significant new sources of financing. For example, Gertrud von Seidlitz, a widow of a noble family, donated 30,000 marks to the party in 1923;Fabrice d'Almeida, La Vie mondaine sous le nazisme, 2008, page 44.
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The Woman Upstairs is a 1921 British drama film directed by Fred Paul and starring Joan Beverley and Frank Hill. It was part of a Grand Guignol series of films. It focuses on the relationship between a demi-mondaine and a newly married man.
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G. Pigeard was a sailor from France, who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. G. Pigeard as helmsman, din not start in first race of the 0.5 to 1 ton and finished 10th in the second race. He did this with the boat Demi-Mondaine.
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It was designed by architect Thomas Lainée (1682-1739) in the seventeenth century. It includes wallpapers by Claude- Joseph Vernet (1714–1789).L'Illustration, Issues 4335-4347, 1926Henri Dobler, Le cadre de la vie mondaine à Aix-en-Provence aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Boudoirs et jardins, F. Detaille, 1928, p. 66 It has three stories.
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General Édouard Corniglion-Molinier (23 January 1898, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes – 9 May 1963) was an aviator and member of the French Resistance, a member of the French government during the French Fourth Republic, and, in the 1930-1940s, a movie producer (André Malraux's L'Espoir also known as Man's Hope). He was a friend of Marcel Dassault and a cousin of Fred Vidal.J.-M. R., « Le général Édouard Corniglion-Molinier », in Air & Cosmos, no 9, 20 May 1963, p. 33Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur, no 1970, 8 August 2002 : « Alors que la Brigade mondaine s’apprête à interdire Histoire d’O, la vie mondaine, elle, fait un miracle. Le médecin de Dominique Aury s’appelle Odette Poulain. Et Odette Poulain est la bonne amie d'Édouard Corniglion-Molinier, général d’aviation, compagnon de Malraux et surtout garde des Sceaux.
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Méry Laurent, born Anne Rose Suzanne Louviot (born 29 April 1849, Nancy- d. 26 November 1900), was a demi-mondaine (courtesan) and the muse of several Parisian artists. She used to run her own “salon” where she hosted many French (and even American) writers and painters of her time: Stéphane Mallarmé, Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, François Coppée, Henri Gervex, James Whistler and Édouard Manet.
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Charles Bernard Jean Ghislain van de Werve (1740-1813), 2nd Count of Vorsselaer, Baron of Lichtaert and of Rielen, Lord of Giessen-Oudkerk, formed part of a very old, important and noble family of Antwerp.De Vegiano, Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas (1760), p. 547. He was the first of the van de Werve de Vorsselaer branch of the House of van de Werve."Chronique Mondaine", L'Indépendance Belge, 22 Dec. 1913.
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In 1886 for a paper called Life, Philips wrote a weekly serial entitled Le Journal d'une Mondaine. After the completion of the serial, he endeavoured to have it published in book form. After rejection by five publishing companies, Philips, on the advice of his friend Edward Morton, submitted the work to Ward and Downey. The novel was then published in two volumes under the title As in a Looking Glass.
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Then, the minute hand advances one step and the second hand starts a new cycle. However, the company stopped making models with this mechanism around 2001.Customer service response In 2013, a redesigned model was launched under the name stop2go.Press release by Mondaine, 27 June, 2013 In keeping with how the movement itself works, the crown is shaped like a rocker switch that you flip back and forth instead of winding.
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He made his first moving picture, titled Le Bain d'une Mondaine in September–October of that year. On 8 October 1895 Joly filed a patent for another machine, the "Photozootrope", which was essentially a large Kinetoscope with four eyepieces. He sold a few units, but did not achieve major success with this development. Pathé realized the commercial possibility of Joly's camera, and in 1896 he dissolved his agreement with Joly.
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The Carnet Mondain (French for Social Notebook) of Belgium, is a directory featuring high society (nobility and upper bourgeoisie), Belgian or foreign, established in Belgium, as well as members of Belgian families established abroad. It is equivalent to the Social Register in the United States. Its tagline is "the Familial and Social Belgium" (French: la Belgique Familiale et Mondaine). It also publishes the coats of arms of these families.
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The story begins at the Gare de l'Ouest, where the employees list the provenance of trains arriving from different places in France ("Nous sommes employés de la ligne de l'Ouest"). Two Parisian dandies, Bobinet and Gardefeu are waiting for the train from Rambouillet, but avoid each other while they walk around. They have fallen out over the demi-mondaine Métella. She arrives with a third man and pretends not to recognize the two previous lovers.
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In June 2015, Fullpower Technologies and Union Horlogère Suisse (Swiss Watchmakers Corporation) formed MMT as a joint venture, which then launched the MotionX Horological Smartwatch Open Platform for the Swiss watch industry. The initial licensees were Frederique Constant, Alpina and Mondaine, brands owned by Union Horlogère Suisse. Fullpower created and managed the circuit design, firmware, smartphone applications (including sleep activity), as well as the cloud Infrastructure. MMT managed the Swiss watch movement development and production as well as licensing and support.
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The Brigade de répression du proxénétisme (BRP) is a judicial police service of the French National Police, responsible for the surveillance of prostitution and the repression of procuring. The service has had various forms of organization during the course of its history. It previously had been designated as the Brigade of Manners and the Brigade de Mondaine (Social Brigade), expressions that remain popular to this day. There are several brigades of this type; the most important is that of the Paris judicial police.
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Nestor Roqueplan, the Goncourt brothers, Paul de Kock, Alexandre Dumas fils, and Henri Murger often found inspiration from these frivolous and naive demi-mondaine women. Gustave Doré engraved them in their glory and decay. Nana, by Émile Zola, describes the life and the tragic destiny of one of these lorettes. Balzac was the subject of vehement critiques for his iniquitous treatment of prostitutes through Coralie, heroine of Illusions perdues, Esther, heroine of Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes and in Le Père Goriot.
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In writing his 1924 play Easy Virtue, Noël Coward stated his object was to present a comedy in the structure of a tragedy "to compare the déclassée woman of to-day with the more flamboyant demi- mondaine of the 1890s." Colette's Gigi (1944) also describes the demimonde and their lifestyle. Gigi is schooled from childhood to be a kept woman, to stifle her feelings in return for a life of ease. "We never marry in our family", says Gigi's grand-mother.
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Andrée Rose Godard, known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, (born May 19, 1903, in Achères (today in Yvelines), and died 3 October, 1989, in Équemauville, Calvados. She was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.Goble p. 136. She was the lover of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.
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Adolf Hitler's attaining power as Chancellor marked the end of numerous women's rights, even though Hitler had succeeded in his social rise in part thanks to the protection of influential women and female voters.Fabrice d'Almeida, La Vie mondaine sous le nazisme, 2008, chapter "Naissance de la haute société nazie".Helen L. Boak, "Our Last Hope": Women's Votes for Hitler - A Reappraisal, German Studies Review, 12 (1989), page 304.Richard J. Evans, German Women and the Triumph of Hitler, The Journal of Modern History, Vol.
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La Brigade Mondaine (National Police Department responsible for the surveillance of prostitution) monitored "Le Spinx" during the 1930s. Photographs were taken to monitor the clientele, and the phones were tapped. Snapshots of the hygiene record drawn up during a health check on November 10, 1936, show that the house employs 5 sub-mistresses and 65 boarders in fancy outfits. The house opened from 3 pm to 5 am, with 3 passes per woman per day during the week, 2 on Sunday, for a single rate of 30 francs plus tip.
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The album got great reviews in the US and Atlantic threw a party in New York City, October 1978 that was one of the largest parties ever thrown for an artist up to that point in time. The album was another Cerrone U.S. disco chart-topper. Driven by "Je Suis Music", "Look for Love", and the urban-slanted "Rocket in the Pocket" which featured Jimmy Page on guitar, this album showed his fusion attributes, foreshadowing his future releases. Cerrone then ventured into movie scoring, supplying the music score for Brigade Mondaine, a French film.
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MotionX brand logo The MotionX Platform is a suite of coupled and integrated firmware, software and communication components for wearable wireless devices. The MotionX Platform is used by several wearable product brands, including Nike, Manufacture Modules Technologies (MMT), Alpina, Frederique Constant, Mondaine, and Jawbone. MotionX-GPS is a handheld GPS Multi-Sport app for runners, hikers, sailors, stand up paddle boarding (SUP), cyclists, geocachers, and other outdoor sport enthusiasts. It leverages the iPhone built-in GPS chip as well as other on-board sensors to provide location data.
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" French police reports, dated 1935, noted the famed traveler's homosexual activity when in Paris at about the time of his planned crossing by elephant over the Alps: "Mr Halliburton is a homosexual well known in some specialized establishments. He is in the habit of soliciting on Saint-Lazare Street"Archives of the Paris Police Prefecture, report n°69000.245 from the Vice Squad (Brigade Mondaine), quoted by François Buot, Gay Paris. Une histoire du Paris interlope entre 1900 et 1942, Fayard 2013. p.282 : "Mr Halliburton est un homosexuel très connu dans certains établissements spécialisés.
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This law caused smiles at the Brigade Mondaine of the 3rd floor of 36, quai des Orfèvres since it emanated from Marthe Richard, who was herself a prostitute until around 1915, when she wanted to make a clean sweep of her past. The police do not like the law because it risks depriving it of one of its sources of information (from the prostitutes). Prostitution was still a legal activity, only its organization, exploitation (procuring), its visible manifestations and offense of soliciting are prohibited by law, however the police continue to tolerate bawdy houses.
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Easy Virtue was produced at a time when Coward was riding a wave of success. The Vortex (1924) had been a controversial sensation on both sides of the Atlantic with its portrayal of recreational drug taking and veiled references to homosexuality; his comedy Hay Fever (1925) achieved box- office success in the West End.Mander and Mitchenson, pp. 67 and 72 In his autobiography, Present Indicative, Coward said that his object in writing the play was to present a comedy in the structure of a tragedy "to compare the déclassée woman of to-day with the more flamboyant demi-mondaine of the 1890s".
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The pace was set by Ellevion, a stablemate of Fontainebleau, but Kincsem used him as her own pacemaker, following him at the front of the pack. On the backstretch, she went to the lead and only Fontainebleau could keep her pace. Kincsem held off his drive and won a half length having the advantage of 3 kg. Four lengths behind followed Gift (subsequent winner of the Grand Prix de Vichy), Mondaine (winner of the Prix de Diane and Grand Prix de Vichy) and Vinaigrette (previous winner of the Grand Prix de Deauville) in a strong field of 8 runners.
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In 1878, Darcourt was a young beauty in the company of Coco, at the opening of Jules Brasseur's Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris. She appeared in operettas, often with the Opéra-Comique, including Le Premier Baiser (1883), Vie Parisienne (1883), Le Château de Tire-Larigot (1884), La Nuits aux soufflets (1884), L'Oiseau bleu (1884), La Vie mondaine (1885), Le Petit Chaperon rouge (1885), L'amour Mouillé (1887), Le Puits qui parle (1888), Juanita (1891), and Le Commandant Laripète (1892). In 1899 Darcourt was in the casts of Le Faubourg and Les Amants Legitimes in Paris. She was in Sylvie, ou La Curieuse d'Amour in 1900.
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A love triangle develops pitting the young revolutionary Antonio (Cesar Romero) against the middle-aged former military officer Don Pasqual (Lionel Atwill) in a contest for the love of the devastatingly beautiful demi-mondaine Concha (Dietrich). Despite the gaiety of the setting, the film has a dark, brooding, reflective quality. The contest ends in a duel where Don Pasqual is wounded, perhaps mortally: the denouement is never made explicit.Baxter, 1971. p. 122Sarris, 1966. p. 40 More so than any of his previous pictures, Sternberg picked a leading man (Atwill) who is the director's double in more than facial appearance: short stature, stern countenance, proud bearing, verbal mannerisms and immaculate attire.
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In the semifinal, she sang France Gall's "Diego libre dans sa tête" and was chosen by the public for the final over B. Demi Mondaine. In the final held on 12 May 2018, Maëlle performed first Harry Styles' "Sign of the Times", then Vianney's "Je m'en vais" in duo with him, and finally Michel Berger's "Seras-tu là" in duo with Zazie. She won the final with 55,3 % of the public vote, becoming the first female and, at 17 years of age, the youngest candidate to ever win the French talent show. On 14 July 2018, in Louhans, Maëlle gave her first public concert.
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Fabrice d'Almeyda, La vie mondaine sous le nazisme, 2008, page 59. She posed as the model German mother for Mothers Day. Eleonore Baur, a friend of Hitler since 1920 (she had participated in the Beer Hall putsch) was the only woman to receive the Blood Order; she also participated in official receptions and was close to Heinrich Himmler, who even named her a colonel of the SS and permitted her free access to the concentration camps, which she went to regularly, particularly Dachau. Hitler did not forget that he owed part of his political ascension to women integrated in the society world (aristocrats or industrialists), such as Elsa Bruckmann.
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What shocked contemporary audiences was not Olympia's nudity, nor the presence of her fully clothed maid, but her confrontational gaze and a number of details identifying her as a demi-mondaine or prostitute. These include the orchid in her hair, her bracelet, pearl earrings and the oriental shawl on which she lies, symbols of wealth and sensuality. The black ribbon around her neck, in stark contrast with her pale flesh, and her cast-off slipper underline the voluptuous atmosphere. "Olympia" was a name associated with prostitutes in 1860s Paris.Clark, T.J. (1999) The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers.
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In April 1779 he set out to return to England, charged by the English inhabitants of Calcutta to deliver, at their expense, a petition to Parliament in England that they should be entitled to trial by jury. After a difficult journey travelling via Cape Town and Holland he arrived back in England, at the port of Harwich, on 28 June 1780. In October he first met and later took up with a demi-mondaine called Charlotte Barry, who was then aged 18 and with whom he fell in love. He offered to marry her; she refused marriage, but agreed to live with him as his partner.
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G Charpentier et Cie, Paris, 1883. and at the same theatre in 1883 he appeared as Tancrède in Le droit d'aînesse, Zug in Premier baiser and Tirechappe in Roi de carreau. 1884 found Berthelier as Bricoli in L’oiseau bleu, Karamatoff in Babolin, Hercule III in La nuit aux soufflets, and the Marquis de Valpointu in Le chateau de Tire-Larigot, and in 1885 as Chiquito in the premiere of La vie mondaine, Bardoulet in the premiere of Le petit chaperon rouge and in the revue Nouveautés de Paris. In 1886, he was at the Nouveautés as Gavaudan in the premiere of Serment d’amour, Satan in Adam et Eve and the seneschal in the premiere of Princesse Colombine.
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Pascal has also starred in television films and mini-series like D'Artagnan Amoureux. In other countries such as the United States and United Kingdom, she is best known for playing the lead role as Élisabeth in the 1978 Jean Rollin classic horror Les Raisins de la Mort, in which Rollin himself said she was very "moving" and that "she made her character's descent into madness is extremely real". The same year, she also appeared in Brigade Mondaine, an adaptation of a novel edited by Gérard de Villiers with a soundtrack by Marc Cerrone. During the 1980s she appeared in two films, Cauchemar and Flics de choc with Mylène Demongeot, which was her final film.
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She sang Aminta in the first Italian performances of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau, and Egloge in the 1935 world-premiere of Mascagni's Nerone (in which she stole all the reviews), both at La Scala, where she continued to appear until 1955. Returning to London in 1946 London, as a leading star of the visiting San Carlo company of Naples, she sang a peculiarly affecting Violetta in La traviata. She had previously been much admired by the troops who had seen her in this role in Naples. Elegant, pretty, petite and with a gift of charm mixed with pathos, the madonna-faced Carosio portrayed the demi-mondaine as to the manner born.
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In November 2011, Jawbone launched the UP band with ID design by Yves Béhar and integrated with the MotionX technology. In February 2012, the MotionX 24/7 application was announced for the Apple App Store, with functions for sleep analysis, heart rate monitoring, and activity monitoring. In 2015, Fullpower partnered with Swiss watch corporation Union Horlogere Holdings to form the joint venture Manufacture Modules Technologies (MMT), and launched the MotionX Horological Smartwatch Open Platform for the Swiss watch industry. The initial partners were Frederique Constant, the Geneva-based luxury watch manufacturer of classical watches; Alpina, the Swiss Sports Watch manufacturer founded in 1883; and Mondaine, known for its SBB Swiss Railway watches.
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During the World War II German occupation of France, twenty top Paris brothels, including Le Chabanais, Le Sphinx, One-Two-Two, La Fleur blanche(:fr:La Fleur blanche), La rue des Moulins, and Chez Marguerite, were reserved by the Wehrmacht for German officers and collaborating Frenchmen.Die Schliessung der "Maisons closes" lag im Zug der Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 October 1996. The brothels flourished and Hermann Göring visited Le Chabanais, as is related in the 2009 two-volume book 1940–1945 Années Erotiques by Patrick Buisson.Peter Allen, Sleeping with the enemy: How 'horizontal collaborators' in Paris brothels enjoyed a golden age entertaining Hitler's troops, Daily Mail, 1 May 2009Véronique Willemin, La Mondaine, histoire et archives de la Police des Mœurs, hoëbeke, 2009, .
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He made his comedian debut at the Cirque-Olympique before he became theatrical columnist for many newspapers. The founder of the Moniteur des théâtres et des plaisirs (1869), the Parisien illustré (1867) and La Vie thermale (1867), he was the publication director of the Paris-mondain (1880-1881) and Colombine (1894-1895) periodics. Stage manager of the Théâtre des Variétés, then successively director of the Théâtre des Délassements- Comiques, the Théâtre du Château-d'eau and the Théâtre Déjazet, he later was managing director of the Alhambra and the Comédie-Mondaine (1906) in Brussels. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time, including the Théâtre Déjazet, the Théâtre de la Gaîté and the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques.
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Piaf's career and fame gained momentum during the German occupation of France.And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris, Alan Riding Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 19 October 2010, She performed in various nightclubs and brothels, which flourished during the 1940–1945 Années Erotiques (book title of Patrick Buisson, director of the French history channel).Véronique Willemin, La Mondaine, histoire et archives de la Police des Mœurs, hoëbeke, 2009, .1940–1945 Années érotiques – tome 2: De la Grande Prostituée à la revanche des mâles Patrick Buisson Albin Michel, 8 April 2009 Various top Paris brothels, including Le Chabanais, Le Sphinx, One Two Two, La rue des Moulins, and Chez Marguerite, were reserved for German officers and collaborating Frenchmen.Die Schliessung der "Maisons closes" lag im Zug der Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 October 1996.
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Mily-Meyer appeared at the Théâtre des Nouveautés as Kate in the French premiere of RipTraubner, R. Operetta — a theatrical history. Oxford University Press, 1983. and at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens as Bianca in the first run of La Béarnaise in 1885. Also at Théâtre des Variétés was La princesse de Trébizonde, while at the Théâtre des Folies- Dramatiques she was in the French premiere of Millöcker's La Demoiselle de Belleville (Die Jungfrau von Belleville). Among many other operettas in which she sang were Roi de Carreau (1885) and Babolin (1884) at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques (November 1884); La vie mondaine (1885) at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, and at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, La Béarnaise (1885), as Benjamine in Joséphine (1886), Gamine de Paris (1887), Le Retour d'Ulysse (1889), Le mari de la reine (1889), Cendrillonnette (1890) and revivals of Les petits mousquetaires and La Princesse de Trébizonde.
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Coward's play was adapted to the screen by Stephan Elliott and Sheridan Jobbins but hardly any feature of the original play remains besides the main characters, and even they do not greatly resemble Coward's cast. In his autobiography, Present Indicative published in 1937, Coward describes his object in the play as being "to compare the declasse woman of to-day with the more flamboyant demi-mondaine of the 1890s." He goes on to say, "The line that was intended to establish the play on a basis of comedy rather than tragedy, comes at the end of the second act when Larita, the heroine, irritated beyond endurance by the smug attitude of her 'in-laws', argues them out of the room." Although the play was made into a silent film in 1928 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Isabel Jeans and Franklin Dyall, this film is not mentioned in Coward's autobiography.
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