Wikipedia versus Encyclopedia Britannica
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Caledonia
Encyclopedia Britannica version
Caledonia: historical area of north Britain beyond Roman control, roughly corresponding to modern Scotland. It was inhabited by the tribe of Caledones (Calidones). The Romans first invaded the district under Agricola about AD 80 and later won a decisive battle at Mons Graupius. They established a legionary fortress at Inchtuthil (near Dunkeld, in Perth and Kinross district, Tayside region) as well as several auxiliary forts in strategic highland passes. But they were forced to evacuate Inchtuthil and all the sites north of the Earn River about AD 90 and all of Scotland during the rule of Trajan (AD 98–117).
Although the frontier between Roman territory and Caledonia was fixed south of the Cheviot Hills by the emperor Hadrian, the Romans subsequently pushed the frontier northward again to the Firth of Forth, building the Antonine Wall by about 144 to guard the new border. They retreated a decade later but reoccupied the wall temporarily later in the 2nd century and made temporary military occupations of regions farther to the north in 209 and 296. Excavations of the area have revealed native crannogs (lake dwellings) and weems (underground stone houses) containing Roman objects of trade.
Wikipedia version
- This article is about Caledonia as a name for northern Britain. For other uses, see Caledonia (disambiguation)
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Caledonia is the Latin name given by the Roman Empire to a northern area of the island of Great Britain. The use of the name sometimes refers specifically to the area north of the Antonine Wall. The name represents that of a Pictish tribe, the 'Caledonii', one amongst several in the region, though perhaps the dominant tribe. Their name can be found in 'Dùn Chailleann', the Scottish Gaelic word for the town of Dunkeld, and Sidh Chailleann or Schiehallion, "Fairy [hill] of the Caledonians".
The modern use of 'Caledonia' in English and Scots is as a romantic or poetic name for Scotland. 'Scotland' itself is derived from Scotia, the Latin term for Ireland, from which the Scoti peoples originated before resettling in northern Great Britain.
- See also
Claude Chabrol
Encyclopedia Britannica version
Claude Chabrol: born June 24, 1930, Paris, France (photo) Claude Chabrol, 1968. Keystone motion-picture director, scenarist, and producer who was France's master of the mystery thriller.
After attending the School of Political Science at the University of Paris, he was a critic and public relations man for Twentieth Century-Fox's French office. Le Beau Serge (1958; “Handsome Serge”; Bitter Reunion), written and produced by Chabrol, was an important film of the New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), a term applied in the late 1950s to a widely diversified experimental movement in French films. That same year he wrote, directed, and produced Les Cousins (1958; The Cousins) and later directed such pictures as Les Bonnes Femmes (1960; “The Good Women”), Landru (1962; Bluebeard), Les Biches (1968; The Does), and Le Boucher (1969; The Butcher).
As the New Wave receded, Chabrol maintained a prodigious output, creating such works as Violette Nozière (1978; Violette), Le Cheval d'orgueil (1979; The Horse of Pride), Blood Relatives (1981), Poulet au vinaigre (1985; “Chicken in Vinegar”), Une Affaire de femmes (1988; Story of Women), and an adaptation (1991) of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. His critical successes at the turn of the century include La Cérémonie (1995; A Judgement in Stone), Merci pour le chocolat (2000; Nightcap), and La Fleur de mal (2003; The Flower of Evil).
Chabrol's fascination with the grotesque, his use of the irony of situation, and his commingling of tragedy and comedy reflect the strong stylistic influence of the English director Alfred Hitchcock. He was coauthor of a biography of Hitchcock in 1957.
Wikipedia version
Claude Chabrol (Template:Pronounced in French) (born June 24, 1930, Paris) is a French film director and has become well-known since his first film, Le Beau Serge (1958) for his chilling tales of murder, including Le Boucher (1970). He is credited with starting the nouvelle vague French film movement.
He was a member of the French New Wave cinema group. Chabrol and Éric Rohmer wrote Hitchcock (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957) a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film The Wrong Man (1957).
He divorced Agnès, his first wife, to marry the actress Stéphane Audran, with whom he had a son, actor Thomas Chabrol. His third wife is Aurore Paquiss.
- Filmography
- Le Beau Serge (1958) (Prix Jean Vigo)
- Les Cousins (1959)
- À double tour (1959)
- Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
- Les Godelureaux (1961)
- Les sept Péchés capitaux (sketch) (1962)
- L'Œil du Malin (1962)
- Ophelia (1963)
- Bluebeard (1963)
- Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (sketch) (1964)
- Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche (1964)
- Paris vu par... (sketch) (1965)
- Marie-Chantal contre docteur Kha (1965)
- Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite (1965)
- La Ligne de démarcation (1966)
- Le Scandale (1967)
- La Route de Corinthe (1967)
- Les Biches (1968)
- La Femme infidèle (1969)
- Que la bête meure (1969)
- Le Boucher (1970)
- La Rupture (1970)
- La Décade prodigieuse (1971) (based on Ten Days Wonder by Ellery Queen)
- Docteur Popaul (1972)
- Les Noces rouges (1973)
- Nada (1974)
- Une Partie de plaisir (1975)
- Les Innocents aux mains sales (1975)
- Les Magiciens (1976)
- Folies bourgeoises (1976)
- Alice ou la Dernière Fugue (1977)
- Les Liens de sang (1978)
- Violette Nozière (1978)
- Le Cheval d'orgueil (1980)
- Les Fantômes du chapelier (1982)
- Le Sang des autres (1984)
- Poulet au vinaigre (1985)
- Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
- Masques (1987)
- Le Cri du hibou (1988, from a novel by Patricia Highsmith)
- Une Affaire de femmes (1989)
- Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1990)
- Docteur M (1990)
- Madame Bovary (1991)
- Betty (1992)
- L'Œil de Vichy (1993)
- L'Enfer (1994)
- La Cérémonie (1995)
- Rien ne va plus (1997)
- Merci pour le chocolat (2000), prix Louis-Delluc
- La fleur du mal (2002)
- La Demoiselle d'honneur (2004)
- L'ivresse du pouvoir (2006)
- La fille coupée en deux (2007)
- Actor
- External links
- Template:Imdb name
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
- Breathless 7: a Berlinale diary Chabrol's Comedy of Power at signandsight.com
- They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
- Claude Chabrol Bibliography (via UC Berkeley
- Interview with Chabrol on La Cérémonie
- Roger Ebert interviews Chabrol in 1971
- Surfer on the New Wave - Interview with Chabrol from 2001
