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  • 41Renoir, Jean — (1894 1979)    Actor, director, producer, and screen writer. Arguably one of the most significant French filmmakers ever, Jean Renoir was the second son of renowned painter Pierre Auguste Renoir. Interested in the image from a very early age,… …

    Historical Dictionary of French Cinema

  • 42in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king — ‘A little wit, among foolish people, will pass a man for a great genius’ (T. Fielding Proverbs of all Nations (1824) 23); also used of ability as well as wit. Cf. ERASMUS Adages III. iv. in regione caecorum rex est luscus, in the kingdom of the… …

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