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(September 12, 1888 in Paris – 1 January 1972)

French actor and chanson singer. Maurice Chevalier became famous for his stage performance in Paris, London and New York. At the age of 30 he became a film Hollywood star. During his film career he made over 50 films, he was most often seen in the role of an elegant gentleman in a hat and a bow tie. His most famous songs include Louise, Mimi, Valentine and Thank Heaven for Little Girls. Since the 1960s, he also appeared in some Walt Disney films, with whom he was associated with close friendships.

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An important figure in Czech and Slovak musical history from the 20s to the 50s of the 20th century. After graduating from the Real High School in Prague, he studied at the Prague Conservatory. He was a pupil of Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859 – 1951). He then studied composition at the master school of Vítězslav Novák and conducting with Václav Talich.
His first famous moment was as a conductor in the Bartered Bride performance at the Forest Theater in Krč. From 1923, he was appointed as a conductor, choirmaster and accompanist to the newly forming opera choir of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. He was also the conductor of the amateur Musical Association Slovak Philharmonic, which became the basis of today’s Slovak Philharmonic. Folprecht also composed himself.
With Czech operas, e.g. The Bartered Bride, he was also successful abroad, in Vienna, Warsaw, Belgrade, Sofia and Bucharest. In Romania, King Michal awarded him the rank of Officer of the Order of the Romanian Crown.
Zdeněk Folprecht died on October 29, 1961 in Prague and is buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery.

Bogdan Cerovac (Year 1904 – Mali Losinj 1969)

He was educated in Pazin until 1920 or 1921, when the whole family left for Ljubljana. Under the influence of his high school teacher Saša Šantel (who also instilled in him a love of music), he continued his education at the AVU in Prague in 1924 (Prof. Obrovský and Prof. F. Thiele). After serving in the army in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, he traveled in Germany, Switzerland and France, then lived and worked in Prague.
He mainly created portraits in a realistic manner, and small decorative sculptures from terracotta and wood. He participated in numerous group exhibitions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and Switzerland.

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French lawyer and politician who proclaimed the French Third Republic in 1870 and played a prominent role in its early government.

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