Nicholas Ray

un film a un succès – et ce fut ici le cas -, ne joue-t-il pas un rôle amplificateur du phénomène ou, en tout cas, de sa perception dans la société ? Ce fut le cas, auparavant, des Tricheurs de Marcel Carné (1958) ou de La Fureur de vivre de Nicholas Ray (1955). Réponses aux questions 1. Voir commentaire doc. 2. 2. Dès la fin des années 1960, le cinéma perd sa prééminence. 3. Voir commentaire du doc. 4. Les premiers succès remontent à l’extrême fin des années 1950 ; les deux auteurs établissent

I suddenly remembered and figured it out myself!” he thought triumphantly, taking a deep and joyful breath. “It was just feverish weakness, a momentary delirium.” And he tore the whole lining out of the left pocket of his trousers. At that moment a ray of sunlight fell on his left boot: there, where his sock peeped out of the boot, marks seemed to have appeared. He kicked the boot off: “Marks, indeed! The whole toe of the sock is soaked with blood.” So he must have carelessly stepped into that pool

(exile or death) and converts many by example. Some texts were written for the use and edification of pilgrims while others were commissioned by churches or abbeys to honour and publicize their patron. Some saints had strong regional followings (Saint Nicholas was popular in the north) or appealed to specific groups who believed in their powers of intercession: Saint Margaret, patron saint of pregnant women, Saint Gilles, healer of the sick, or Saint Marie l’Égyptienne, the penitent prostitute who lived