Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from HauteNormandie in the north of France. He was a Protestant, a descendant of Huguenots, some of whom fled the country during the French Wars of Religion first to settle in Wallonia then, after their name became De la Noye and then Delano, were on the second ship to emigrate to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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