René Fallet

René Fallet

Birth : 1927-12-04, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Val-de-Marne, France

Death : 1983-07-25

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René Fallet (4 December 1927 – 25 July 1983) was a 20th-century French writer. He wrote a novel that the 1981 film La Soupe aux choux was later based on. Source: Article "René Fallet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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René Fallet

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The Cabbage Soup
Novel
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé...
Novel
Camadule is in charge of buying several barrels of the Beaujolais Nouveau. The Captain and Kamel will travel with him to get the divine beverage.
Pourquoi t'as les cheveux blancs...
Writer
Idiot in Paris
Le militaire client de La fleur / le curé de Jaligny
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
Idiot in Paris
Novel
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
Paris in the Month of August
Novel
A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who came to Paris for a shoot.
The Last Steps
Novel
A young poster artist sees an older married woman in cinema and falls in love.
The Fabiani Affair
Writer
The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican people, from the underworld or not...
The Old Guard
Novel
The Tricyclist
Novel
Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
The Gates of Paris
Novel
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up drinking and takes care of Pierre. But one day Juju finds out that Pierre has been making love to his girl Maria...
The Love of a Woman
Writer
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer.
The Love of a Woman
Dialogue
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer.
Fan-Fan the Tulip
Writer
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.