A couple of weeks later, he and his fellow escapee, francois besse. Mesrine and his accomplice francois besse made a successful getaway. Cassel rendered most identifiable traits of mesrine but the book made them. Lappel aux arbres ou les liens mysterieux qui unissent larbre et lhomme. The tattered stretch of avenue between the end of metro line four and the. Jacques tillier raconte sa rencontre avec jacques mesrine. Public enemy number one, detailed mesrine s criminal career. Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final period as a fugitive when his exploits included trying to kidnap the judge who had. Frances most slippery criminal on trial world news. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Join facebook to connect with francois besse and others you may know. He did not try to conceal this fact, and in his book he describes a. Essayez prime bonjour, identifiezvous compte et listes identifiezvous compte et listes retours et. The mesrine memoir had a huge effect on lebovici and debord, due to the fact that lebovici was the publisher for mesrines book when he was public enemy number one.
Jacques mesrine biography affair, divorce, ethnicity. On may 8, 1978, he produced a gun, stole keys and, with francois besse a highly accomplished escaper in his own right, and another man, mesrine got out of. Vincent cassel, the cocky, snakeeyed french actor with a prizefighters mug is so charismatic in mesrine, a fourhour biography of the notorious french gangster jacques mesrine. He had also escaped from prison many times as well as made international headlines during. The movie is generally true to the book and well worth seeing. Francois besse, mastercriminal and masterescaper, is being tried in.
One of the books published to coincide with the movies is mesrine intime, a collection of love letters and poems which he wrote to his beautiful, young. Killer instinct, was based on mesrines autobiographical book. Jacques mesrine was known as frances public enemy no 1. Francois besse y est interprete par mathieu amalric. He also meets francois besse, another convict and his solitary confinement. Vincent cassel in biography of french gangster the new. Sylvia jeanjacquot ma vie avec mesrine archive ina. Cavales une vie evadee broche francois besse achat livre ou. Mesrine is a twopart 2008 french biographical crime film on the life of french gangster jacques mesrine, directed by jeanfrancois richet and written by abdel raouf dafri and richet.