Gaston Juchet
Gaston Juchet (French pronunciation: [ɡɑstɔ̃ ʒyʃɛ]) was a French engineer, known for being the chief designer of Renault between 1963 and 1975 and again between 1984 and 1987.
Early life and career
Gaston Juchet's interest in drawing begun when he was a boarder at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He graduated with engineering degrees from the École Centrale Paris. In 1958, after his military service, he joined Renault's research and development department as an aerodynamics engineer. His first work within the company was a facelifting for the Frégate. Later, he was the key developer of the project 115, which would become the Renault 16. From 1963 onwards, he was one of the most important designers within Renault. In 1965, he was officially appointed chief of Renault Styling. During the following years, he participated in the design of various Renault cars such as the Renaults 12, 15, 17, 5 (although the 5 was mostly designed by Michel Boué), 6, 30, 20 and the Alpine A310. In 1975, Robert Opron took the direction of Renault Styling, and Juchet was made one his assistants along with Jacques Nocher. When Opron left the company in 1984, Juchet became again chief designer until he was replaced by Patrick le Quément in 1987.
Gaston
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Gaston (seal)
Gaston is the name of a brown fur seal that lived in Prague Zoo in years 1991-2002. He became famous during the 2002 European floods when he escaped from the zoological garden, when the rising waters of the Vltava river flooded his tank at Prague zoo. He swam more than 300 km (190 mi) from Prague to Dresden (Germany) on rivers Vltava and Elbe. He was recaptured north of Dresden and subsequently died due to exhaustion and infection.
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Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third in the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, who was also credited in the English version as well as in the French version, and ideas from the 1946 French film.Beauty and the Beast focuses on the relationship between the Beast (Robby Benson), a prince who is magically transformed into a monster as punishment for his arrogance, and Belle (Paige O'Hara), a beautiful young woman whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, Beast must win her love in return otherwise he remains a monster forever. The film also features the voices of Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Angela Lansbury.
Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Beauty and the Beast into an animated feature film during the 1930s and 1950s. Following the success of The Little Mermaid (1989), Disney decided to adapt the fairy tale, which Richard Purdum originally conceived as a non-musical. Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg eventually discontinued the idea and ordered that the film be a musical similar to The Little Mermaid instead. Beauty and the Beast was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, with a screenplay by Linda Woolverton story first credited to Roger Allers. Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote the film's songs. Ashman, who additionally served as an executive producer on the film, died of AIDS-related complications eight months before the film's release, and the film was dedicated to his memory.
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