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Christian Clavier is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier. After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) —he started his actor career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid, which had hits with films like Les Bronzés font du ski and Le Père Noël est une ordure. His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, was in the 1993 film les Visiteurs, where he played a character known as Jacquouille la fripouille; the character's cry of "Okkkayyy!!" became a popular exclamation after the movie's success. After les Visiteurs he was a certified star, participating in big-budget films like Astérix et Obélix contre César, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, and the sequel and remake of Visiteurs. He also played several dramatic roles on television, including M. Thénardier in Les Misérables (2000 television version) and Napoléon in a biographical television film. Clavier has played in notable duos with: Jean Reno in les Visiteurs (the Visitors) and the US remake, Just Visiting, L'Opération Corned-Beef and L'Enquête corse (The Corsican investigation). Gérard Depardieu in Astérix et Obélix (Asterix and Obelix) and Les anges gardiens. He also runs a production company, Ouille Production. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 13 June 1998, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2008. He is a friend of former French président Nicolas Sarkozy, and recently emigrated to England as a result of Francois Hollande's punitive tax policy, mirrored in his Astérix co-star Gérard Depardieu's self-imposed exile to Belgium.
Christian Clavier
Leif´S Crew Of 35
for Leif´S Crew Of 35 in Saga of Leif Eriksson
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Leif was wise, considerate, and strong man. he was the middle son of Erik the Red, the founder of the Norse settlement in Greenland and his wife Thjodhild. We don’t know when and where he was born but it’s believed to have been around 970AD in the recently-colonised Iceland. His grandfather, Thorvald Asvaldsson, had been banished from Norway for manslaughter and lived in exile in Iceland with his son Erik. During Leif´s stay in the Hebrides, he fell in love with a noblewoman, Thorgunna, who gave birth to son Thorgils. He discovered Vinland after being blown off course on his way from Norway to Greenland. Prior to the voyage, Leif had spent time at the court of Norwegian King Olaf Tryggvesson, after exile from Norway for killing Eyiolf the Foul. Leif heard the tale of Bjarni Herjolfsson. He bought Bjarni’s ship and raised a crew of 35 and set out to discover the verdant land of the Americas. When Leif encountered the storm that forced him off course, he (accompanied by a priest) had been on his way to introduce Christianity to the Greenlanders. They finally found a land that seemed like the place they were searching for. They found wild grapes, self-sown wheat and maple trees. Afterwards, they loaded their ship and sailed east to Greenland, rescuing a group of shipwrecked sailors along the way. Leif is last mentioned alive in 1025 he had passed on his chieftaincy of Eiríksfjǫrðr to another son, Thorkell.
