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Étienne Périer (11 December 1931 – 21 June 2020) was a Belgian film director.
Etienne Périer was born on 11 December 1931 in Brussels, Belgium. He was a director and writer, known for Bridge to the Sun (1961), Meurtre en 45 tours (1960) and La part du feu (1978). He died on 21 June 2020 in Le Plan-de-la-Tour, Var, France.
- Director, Writer, Actor
- December 11, 1931
- Etienne Périer
- June 21, 2020
Étienne Périer est un réalisateur belge né le 11 décembre 1931 à Bruxelles et mort le 21 juin 2020 au Plan-de-la-Tour 1 . Biographie. Filmographie. 1956 : Bernard Buffet. 1959 : Bobosse. 1960 : Meurtre en 45 tours. 1961 : Le Pont vers le soleil (Bridge to the Sun) 1962 : Le Mercenaire ( La congiura dei dieci) 1964 : Dis-moi qui tuer.
Etienne Périer was born on December 11, 1931 in Brussels, Belgium. He was a director and writer, known for Bridge to the Sun (1961), Meurtre en 45 tours (1960) and La part du feu (1978). He died on June 21, 2020 in Le Plan-de-la-Tour, Var, France.
- December 11, 1931
- June 21, 2020
- Early Life
- In The French Navy
- In Service of The Compagnies
- Governor of The French Louisiana
- Return to The Navy
- Personal Life
- Legacy
- Further Reading
Étienne Perier was born on February 27, 1686, in Brest in France. A member of the de Perier family, he was the son of Étienne Perier[fr] and Marie de Launay. His father was a non-noble shipowner and merchant in Le Havre. By 1691 the family moved to Dunkirk, where Perier's father served as captain of the Port of Dunkirk. In 1695, when he was eight, ...
When he was 15, Perier began a military career at sea. French naval power at the time was invested primarily in a fleet of coursairs, and Perier served on several ships escorting convoys in the English Channel and the North Sea until August 1704, when he joined a company of gardes-marine. During the War of Spanish Succession, he participated in the...
After the Wars of the Spanish Succession wound down in 1714, Perier returned to sea to combat pirates off the coast of Senegal for the Compagnie du Sénégal, which held a monopoly on the trade of enslaved people from West Africa. After 1718, it merged with several other French trading monopolies into the Company of the Indies. In 1721, Perier served...
In August 1726, after then-governor of French Louisiana Pierre Dugué de Boisbriant was recalled to France, Perier was appointed commandant general of the territory, overseeing military matters and relations with the Native Americans. He arrived in New Orleans in October 1726 and established his home at 613 Royal Street. Also in October, Louis XV en...
After his recall, Perier and his family returned to France, and by 1734 he returned to sea as second officer on the Neptune, cruising off the coast of Senegal. By 1737 he had settled in Brest, and made a career in the French Navy. During the War of the Austrian Succession, he commanded the Mars during the capture of HMS Northumberland in 1744 and p...
Étienne Perier married Catherine le Chibelier (1691–1956), daughter of an échevin (municipal official) from Le Havre and the widow of naval officer Jacques Graton de Chambellan, on September 21, 1719.They had three sons and a daughter. Two of the sons, Étienne Louis (1720–1756) and Antoine Louis (1728–1759), lived to adulthood and followed their fa...
In 1890, the city of New Orleans named a street after Perier, although with the spelling "Perrier." Perrier Street runs mostly through the Uptown section of the city, between Saint Charles Avenue and the Mississippi River.
Cowan, Walter Greaves; McGuire, Jack B. (2010). Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-320-4.Cushman, Horatio Bardwell (1899). History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians. Greenville, Texas: Headlight Printing House. ISBN 978-1-5485-1119-7.Davis, Edwin Adams (1975). Louisiana, the Pelican State. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-0162-9.Dawson, Joseph G. III, ed. (1990). The Louisiana Governors: From Iberville to Edwards. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1527-5.Jun 21, 2020 · Étienne Périer (11 December 1931 – 21 June 2020) was a Belgian film director.
Sep 10, 2012 · In a seemingly undistinguished career, Périer at last came up with a fascinating thriller, a pure Hitchcock-Chabrol pastiche. The theme is essentially a reworki.
