Jacques Capelovici

See also: Capello

Jacques Capelovici , also very known under the pseudonym of Main Capello (or sometimes Main Capelo - though wrongly according to itself), is a linguist French, also organizer of television games French-speaking, born the December 19th 1922 with Paris.

It is famous for its participation in the play of FR3 starting from 1976, the Sets of 20 hours . It returns regularly in television programs for interventions punctuated by “good quality”.

Formation

Jacques Capelovici is aggregate of English, certified of German, Italian graduate of and Scandinavian old.

Radio and television

Works

  • 1969: William Shakespeare , texts on Shakespeare adapted by Jacques Capelovici, including extracts of works of Shakespeare, Paris: “Paris-Match”, coll “Giants of the world literature”, 136 p.
  • 1969: Goethe , texts on Goethe adapted by Jacques Capelovici, including extracts of works of Goethe, Paris: “Paris-Match”, coll “Giants of the world literature”, 136 p.
  • 1970: New English course. 5th , in collaboration with Pierre Simon, Paris: Wesmael-Charlier, 200 p.
  • 1971: Let us speak correctly French, handy guide , Paris: TV 7 Days, 128 p. (2nd edition, republished in 1978)
  • 1971: the School of the crossed words, 80 problems of graduated difficulty , Paris: Bordered
  • 1972: New English course. 6th , in collaboration with Pierre Simon, Paris: Wesmael-Charlier, 200 p.
  • 1972: New English course. 4th , in collaboration with Pierre Simon and Doreen Markam, Paris: Wesmael-Charlier, 191 + 37 p.
  • 1978: cross Words of Master Capelo , Presses-Pocket
  • 1981: the cross Words , Paris: Bordered
  • 1990: the French without faults. Repertory of the most frequent errors of the written and spoken language , Editions Acropolis, 322 p. (several republications)
  • 1992: Guide of correct French. Traps, difficulties and traps of the French language , the Archipelago
  • 2004: 160 cross words and arrow words , the Archipelago
  • 2005: 150 arrow words: All levels , the Archipelago
  • 2007: 200 arrow words: All levels , the Archipelago

Anecdotes

Capello was English professor to the Lycée Lakanal with Sceaux in the Années 1960. Using an original and fastidious pedagogy, it was one of the high-speed motorboats of the college, and already, at the time, everyone called it Maître. Contrary to its attitude on television, it was famous for its angers, during which it output strings of insults. In this case, the answer of the pupils was: " It is necessary to put a term to the Master ".

Large Master of the Pun S, one of his traditional was: “It was a woman who had married her time… like Simone Signoret! ” Revealing with its pupils the secrecies of the Palindrome, its fetish example was: “Eric our servant went to wash you your waxed” (adding négligemment that one could just as easily replace Eric by Luc!). Each year it was going to make pass the tests of the baccalaureat to the prisoners of the Prison of Fresnes, being made a pleasure of appearing in front of the cameras of the TV, hilarious, going down from the “police van” which brought it on the spot.

It would appear as epistolary correspondent of Étiemble in its book of 1964: do you Speak Franglais? .

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