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Pierre Dac

Pierre Dac

French humorist

André Isaac (15 August 1893 Châlons-sur-Marne, France – 9 February 1975 Paris, France), better known as Pierre Dac, was a French humorist. During World War II, Pierre Dac was one of the speakers of the BBC's Radio Londres service to occupied France. He produced a series of satirical songs which were broadcast on the station. After the war, he participated in a comic duet with the humorist Francis Blanche.

Pierre Dac in 1947.

A very active freemason,[1][2][3] initiated in 1926 at "Les Inséparables d'Osiris" lodge in Paris, he created a parodic and slang masonic rite "Le rite des Voyous"[4][5] still practiced in some French lodges.

Dac is also the creator of the comic term "Schmilblick."

Selected filmography

References

  1. [1]
    Dictionnaire universel de la Franc-Maçonnerie (Marc de Jode, Monique Cara and Jean-Marc Cara, ed. Larousse, 2011)
  2. [2]
    Dictionnaire de la Franc-Maçonnerie (Daniel Ligou, Presses Universitaires de France, 2006)
  3. [3]
    Encyclopédie de la Franc-Maçonnerie (ed. Livre de Poche, 2000)
  4. [4]
    Les francs-maçons page 89 (Sophie Coignard, ed. La Boétie)
  5. [5]
    "Le rituel des voyous de Pierre Dac". La Franc-Maçonnerie pour les Nuls. Retrieved February 3, 2024.

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