Bruant

[bry-ahn]

noun

1. Libéral c1635–1697, French architect.

Example Sentences

He helped brand the angle of a dancer’s leg in the famous poster advertising La Goulue’s performances at the Moulin Rouge, and the red scarf and imperious sneer of the singer and cafe owner Aristide Bruant.

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While Bruant is given a few minutes of stage time – tossing off insults at his customers, as he was known to do — most of the other figures we meet flit by in a swirl of skirts and a line or two: “We’re famous!”

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The facade retains the outsize face of cabaret singer Aristide Bruant that once signaled French food inside.

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Directed by Volker Schlöndorff; written by Cyril Gely and Mr. Schlöndorff, based on the play “Diplomatie,” by Mr. Gely; director of photography, Michel Amathieu; edited by Virginie Bruant; set design by Jacques Rouxel; costumes by Mirjam Muschel; produced by Marc de Bayser and Frank Le Wita, with Sidonie Dumas and Francis Boespflug; released by Zeitgeist Films.

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She owed something to M. Xanrof, who for a long time composed songs especially for her, and perhaps still more to Aristide Bruant, who wrote many of her argot songs.

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