36 chandelles

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| alt = Portrait of Jean Nohain

| caption = Creator Jean Nohain

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| creator = Jean Nohain

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| country = France

| network = RTF

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| first_aired = {{start date|1952|10|27|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1958|07|26}}

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36 chandelles is a French variety show which was broadcast from October 27, 1952 to July 26, 1958.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1967/01/27/varietes-soiree-aux-36-chandelles_2609353_1819218.html|title=VARIÉTÉS : soirée aux (36) chandelles|date=January 27, 1967|via=Le Monde}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i21002668/jean-nohain-sur-l-emission-trente-six-chandelles|title=Jean Nohain sur l'émission "Trente six chandelles" | INA|via=ina.fr}}

Premise

Jean Nohain created the show made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism for French television.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2w1h43bOsZMC&dq=36+chandelles+jean+nohain&pg=PA117|page=117|title=La télévision dans la République|date=1999|author1=Marie-Françoise Lévy|author2=Evelyne Cohen|isbn=9782870277300|access-date=18 July 2022}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPUaZDwR9zQC&dq=36+chandelles+jean+nohain&pg=PA37|page=37|title=Les travestissements di jeu télévisé|date=2009|publisher=Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle|author=Laurence Leveneur|isbn=9782878544794|access-date=18 July 2022}}

Legacy

In a 1957 French film called C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles, it features the 36 chandelles as a main plot device in the movie.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2r3wDwAAQBAJ&dq=36+chandelles+jean+nohain&pg=PT94|title=The French Film Musical|author1=Phil Powrie|author2=Marie Cadalanu|date=2020|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781501329784|access-date=18 July 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.liberation.fr/medias/1996/06/27/c-est-arrive-a-trente-six-chandelles-cine-cinefil-henri-diamant-berger_173233/|title=C'est arrivé à Trente-six Chandelles... Ciné Cinéfil. Henri Diamant-Berger.|first=Louis|last=Skorecki|website=Libération}}

Bibliography

André Leclerc, Jean Nohain, 36 chandelles, Gallimard, Paris, 1959 {{OCLC|43062858}}

References

Category:1952 French television series debuts

Category:1958 French television series endings

Category:1950s French television series

Category:1950s variety television series

Category:French-language television shows