José Giovanni: astrology, horoscope, natal chart

José Giovanni, also known as Joseph Damiani, was a French-Swiss writer and film-maker of Corsican origin. He was born in Paris (France) on June 22, 1923, dying in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 24, 2004 from a brain haemorrhage. A former criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experiences or from real gangsters such as Abel "the mammoth" Danos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques. In his films as well as his novels, he often championed the underworld, as did Auguste Le Breton, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world. Biography Originally Corsican, José Giovanni was well-educated, studying at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and Lycée Janson de Sailly. He worked...