Panorama du Bec d'Allier en Bourgogne Franche comté
Le panorama du Bec d'Allier est un lieu situé sur la commune de Marzy, dans le département français de la Nièvre, en face de la confluence entre la Loire et l'Allier, sur un escarpement, à une altitude voisine de 228m.
LA NIÈVRE - FRANCE
LA NIÈVRE - FRANCE
La Nièvre est un département français situé dans le sud-ouest de la région Bourgogne, dans le centre du pays, et doit son nom à la rivière qui le traverse.
La Nièvre fait partie de la région Bourgogne, et correspond approximativement à l'ancienne province du Nivernais. Elle est limitrophe des départements de l'Yonne, de la Côte-d'Or, de Saône-et-Loire, de l'Allier, du Cher et du Loiret.
La Nièvre est constituée de régions naturelles assez variées. D'ouest en est, on peut distinguer :
l'extrémité amont du Val de Loire. La Loire, rejointe par l'Allier au Bec d'Allier, légèrement en aval de Nevers, sur les territoires des communes de Marzy et de Gimouille, constitue l'essentiel de la frontière ouest du département avec le Cher ;
la Puisaye, à l'extrémité nord-ouest du département, à la limite avec les départements du Loiret et de l'Yonne ;
les collines calcaires du Nivernais, qui correspondent à la partie centrale du département ;
le Bazois, qui se trouve à l'est des collines du Nivernais et qui correspond aux contreforts du Morvan ;
l'est du département correspond à la partie occidentale du Morvan, massif granitique, anciennement exploité pour son bois notamment, et aujourd'hui davantage dédié à une activité touristique.
Le département est traversé par de nombreux cours d'eau, notamment la Loire, l'Allier, l'Yonne, l'Aron et la Cure, et aussi par plusieurs canaux.
Avec ses 6 817 km2, la Nièvre se hisse au 22e rang des départements français les plus grands, et au 21e rang des départements de France métropolitaine.
Au Moyen Âge, le département, bien que n'existant pas, avait un rôle important en tant que carrefour entre le Sud et le Nord du Royaume de France. De grands barons se partageaient le territoire, comme les barons de Brancion, qui dominèrent pendant plusieurs siècles la majeure partie de la Saône-et-Loire, les comtes de Chalon-sur-Saône ou ceux du Charollais
Le département a été créé officiellement à la Révolution française, le 4 mars 1790, en application de la loi du 22 décembre 1789, à partir d'une partie de la province de Bourgogne. Les états généraux du Charolais, réunis dans l'ancien couvent des pères Blancs — revendu plus tard comme bien national — et libre en tant que province indépendante réunie depuis peu à la couronne, ont préféré installer la préfecture à Mâcon, plutôt qu'à Chalon-sur-Saône ; c'est ainsi que Mâcon est devenue le chef-lieu du département.
Après la victoire des coalisés à la bataille de Waterloo (18 juin 1815), le département est occupé par les troupes autrichiennes de juin 1815 à novembre 1818 (voir occupation de la France à la fin du Premier Empire
PPS de Rick & Jessie64 mis en vidéo Par Jean-Marc Coquelle
My Friend Irma: The Red Hand / Billy Boy, the Boxer / The Professor's Concerto
My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, is a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy, so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films, television, a comic strip and a comic book, while Howard scored with another radio comedy hit, Life with Luigi. Marie Wilson portrayed the title character, Irma Peterson, on radio, in two films and a television series. The radio series was broadcast from April 11, 1947 to August 23, 1954.
Dependable, level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis, Diana Lynn) began each weekly radio program by narrating a misadventure of her innocent, bewildered roommate, Irma, a dim-bulb stenographer from Minnesota. The two central characters were in their mid-twenties. Irma had her 25th birthday in one episode; she was born on May 5. After the two met in the first episode, they lived together in an apartment rented from their Irish landlady, Mrs. O'Reilly (Jane Morgan, Gloria Gordon).
Irma's boyfriend Al (John Brown) was a deadbeat, barely on the right side of the law, who had not held a job in years. Only someone like Irma could love Al, whose nickname for Irma was Chicken. Al had many crazy get-rich-quick schemes, which never worked. Al planned to marry Irma at some future date so she could support him. Professor Kropotkin (Hans Conried), the Russian violinist at the Princess Burlesque theater, lived upstairs. He greeted Jane and Irma with remarks like, My two little bunnies with one being an Easter bunny and the other being Bugs Bunny. The Professor insulted Mrs. O'Reilly, complained about his room and reluctantly became O'Reilly's love interest in an effort to make her forget his back rent.
Irma worked for the lawyer, Mr. Clyde (Alan Reed). She had such an odd filing system that once when Clyde fired her, he had to hire her back again because he couldn't find anything. Useless at dictation, Irma mangled whatever Clyde dictated. Asked how long she had been with Clyde, Irma said, When I first went to work with him he had curly black hair, then it got grey, and now it's snow white. I guess I've been with him about six months.
Irma became less bright as the program evolved. She also developed a tendency to whine or cry whenever something went wrong, which was at least once every show. Jane had a romantic inclination for her boss, millionaire Richard Rhinelander (Leif Erickson), but he had no real interest in her. Another actor in the show was Bea Benaderet.
Katherine Elisabeth Wilson (August 19, 1916 -- November 23, 1972), better known by her stage name, Marie Wilson, was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma.
Born in Anaheim, California, Wilson began her career in New York City as a dancer on the Broadway stage. She gained national prominence with My Friend Irma on radio, television and film. The show made her a star but typecast her almost interminably as the quintessential dumb blonde, which she played in numerous comedies and in Ken Murray's famous Hollywood Blackouts. During World War II, she was a volunteer performer at the Hollywood Canteen. She was also a popular wartime pin-up.
Wilson's performance in Satan Met a Lady, the second film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's detective novel The Maltese Falcon, is a virtual template for Marilyn Monroe's later onscreen persona. Wilson appeared in more than 40 films and was a guest on The Ed Sullivan Show on four occasions. She was a television performer during the 1960s, working until her untimely death.
Wilson's talents have been recognized with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for radio at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard, for television at 6765 Hollywood Boulevard and for movies at 6601 Hollywood Boulevard.
Wilson married four times: Nick Grinde (early 1930s), LA golf pro Bob Stevens (1938--39), Allan Nixon (1942--50) and Robert Fallon (1951--72).
She died of cancer in 1972 at age 56 and was interred in the Columbarium of Remembrance at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.