The son of the dramatist Tristan Bernard, Jean-Jacques began writing plays before World War I. Unconscious jealousy is the theme of Le Feu qui reprend mal (1921; The Sulky Fire) and Le Printemps des autres (1924; The Springtime of Others).
The mutability of history, memory and human experience has been a recurring theme of Mr. Le's work.
Another favourite theme of Ms Le Pen's is a sort of anti-establishment, anti-Paris, anti-elitism, which she manages to carry off with panache given that she was brought up in a giant mansion just outside the capital.
He was an early master of offering the resignation that was not to be accepted, and towards the end of his life of variations on the theme of après moi le déluge.
In the final bars, as Tosca evades Spoletta and leaps to her death, the theme of "E lucevan le stelle" is played tutta forze (as loudly as possible).
Now, the language of Mr. Chatel, the education minister, resonates with the themes of the Le Pens.
This pattern of professional success and personal tragedy is a recurrent theme in Les's life.
In addition, the theme and execution of "Le Horla" (in its much superior long version of 1887) foreshadows the cosmic horror of HP Lovecraft, while Maupassant's harsh naturalism fed into the work of Céline, who also shared his view that life lacks any intrinsic meaning.
This year's theme is "Legends of Le Mans: Racing in the '60s". For more information, visit http://www.danapointconcours.org.org
The theme of the festival is "Le Mani Sulle Città" -- "Hands on the City" which is both a play on the title of the Francesco Rosi film, but also points the finger at who the new economic "criminal owners" are in major Italian urban centers such as Rome and Milan.
Anti-Semitism, however, an underlying theme of the party's founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been disavowed by Ms. Le Pen, his daughter.
