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    Alphonse Allais (20 October 1854 in Honfleur – 28 October 1905 in Paris) was a French writer, journalist and humorist. He was also the editor of the Chat...
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    Deux et deux font cinq (Two and Two Make Five), written in 1895 by Alphonse Allais, which is a collection of absurdist short stories; and the 1920 imagist...
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  • Allais is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), French writer and humorist David Allais (born 1933)...
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    funérailles d'un grand homme sourd) (1897) by Alphonse Allais, consisting of 24 empty measures. Allais was a companion of his fellow composer Erik Satie...
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  • sculptor Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist Alphonse Osbert (1857–1939), French Symbolist painter Alphonse Allais (1854–1905)...
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    souteneurs encore dans la force de l'âge et le ventre dans l'herbe by Alphonse Allais, consisting of a green carriage curtain suspended from a wooden cylinder...
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  • later associated with avant-garde and anti-art. Jules Lévy (1857–1935) Alphonse Allais (1854–1905) Sapeck (Eugène Bataille)(French) (1854–1891) Émile Cohl...
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  • film is based on the novel L'Affaire Blaireau (The Blaireau Case) by Alphonse Allais. The story had previously been adapted for the screen in 1923 and in...
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    souteneurs encore dans la force de l'âge et le ventre dans l'herbe by Alphonse Allais, consisting of a green carriage curtain suspended from a wooden cylinder...
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  • tuʁ.ma.ɲa.nim] Another notable French exponent of the holorime was Alphonse Allais: Par les bois du djinn, où s'entasse de l'effroi, (By the woods of...
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    was a French playwright and librettist. An old friend of the author Alphonse Allais, he is remembered along his friend as a forerunner of minimalism with...
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    (Alphonse Allais) Translated by Doug Skinner (Black Scat Books: Absurdist Texts & Documents - Interim Edition No. 00, 2013) I Am Sarcey by Alphonse Allais...
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    National Library examining obscure medieval manuscripts. His friend Alphonse Allais later dubbed him "Esotérik Satie". From this period comes Ogives, a...
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    Albert Samain, Louis Le Cardonnel, Coquelin Cadet, Emile Goudeau, Alphonse Allais, Maurice Rollinat, Maurice Donnay, Armand Masson, Aristide Bruant,...
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    process. Some modern sources have credited French humorist and writer Alphonse Allais with the invention. The invention was previously attributed to Satori...
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  • Books, 2008, ISBN 1-84668-197-9. The World of Alphonse Allais (translation of humorous essays by Alphonse Allais. London: Faber & Faber, 2008, ISBN 978-0-571-24738-7...
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    l’air y est tellement plus pur ! - that is usually attributed to Alphonse Allais. In 1931 Sacha Guitry created a play freely inspired by Monnier's life...
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  • primo-avrilesque is a monograph by French writer, artist and humourist Alphonse Allais. The slim volume of 26 octavo landscape pages, 18.5 by 12 centimetres...
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    Stanshall Amos Tutuola Alan Watts "Weird Al" Yankovic Cesar Aira (Spanish) Alphonse Allais (French) Samuel Beckett (French) Miron Białoszewski (Polish) Campos...
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    artistic eye is shown through the decorations on display at his house. Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), writer and humourist Louis Andlauer (1876–1915), organist...
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    and the second at 2 Avenue Michelet was opened on 1 September 1872. Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), writer Amer Alwan (1957–2023), film director and actor...
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  • serialism[vague] to turn to a reduction of means.[citation needed] Alphonse Allais is the author of the earliest known example of a completely silent...
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    40-42: The café Sherry Cobbler, frequented by Mallarmé, the humourist Alphonse Allais, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam ... n° 44: Lycée Saint-Louis n° 49:...
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    télévisuelles de Luchon : Best actor for Le Mari de mon mari 2019 : Académie Alphonse Allais : Prix Jules Renard for Le Lait de Marie 2000 : Tes, Éditions Solitiaires...
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    to censor with imaginary scissors the magazine which depicts editor Alphonse Allais; bottom right, one hand grabs the woman's dress while two gendarmes...
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  • critique". Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man (1897) by Alphonse Allais, a French writer and humorist (1854–1905); published in his Album primo-avrilesque...
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    novelist and short story writer. He won the Prix Alphonse-Allais from the Académie Alphonse Allais in 1994. He became a great chancellor of the Académie...
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    received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012...
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  • Alphonse Allais Reader by Alphonse Allais. Compiled & translated by Doug Skinner. (Black Scat Books: 2018) ISBN 978-1732350670 2 + 2 = 5 by Alphonse Allais...
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  • Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, poet and wit (died 1900) October 20 Alphonse Allais, French humorist (died 1905) Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (died 1891)...
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