Jacques de Baroncelli

Jacques de Baroncelli 25 June 1881 12 January 1951 was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace now the Palais du Roure His fathers side of the family were of Tuscan origin and part of the Ghibelline tradition and they were hereditary Marquises of Javon Though somewhat aristocratic the family spoke Provençal which was rather controversial at a time when it was considered to be a language of the common people His older brother was Folco de BaroncelliJavon He directed well over 80 films between 1915 and 1948 and in the 1940s released numerous films in the United States and Italy One of his films a version of the Pierre Louÿs novel La Femme et le pantin 1928 was filmed in the experimental KellerDorian colour process