Today, "La Soupe aux Choux" is available among the new sound samples in the Sounds section. Le Glaude, Le Bombé and La Denrée will welcome you with a glass of wine or a bowl of soup, to your convenience!

And, for a better experience, the "Listen" link will let you play each sound sample while reading the characters' dialogues.

Bon appétit !

Sound samples from "Jo" are now available on the Sounds page. Four films remaining in the publication process: Le Petit Baigneur, Hibernatus, Le Grand Restaurant et la Soupe aux Choux.

These four will close this first multimedia contents' renewal. However, among all Louis de Funès' box-office hits, some of them are still missing!

And, instead of choosing them myself, I preferred to let you decide. That's why you'll find, on the right part of the website, a new poll. Which film would you like to discover, in both photos and sounds, for the next update? It's up to you.

Thanks by advance for your patience and support, and hope to see you soon!

Several days were actually required to complete upload of new multimedia contents announced for the website's 8th anniversary. You can thus now find them on the Photos and Sounds webpages.

However, sound samples from the following films are still missing: Le Petit Baigneur, Hibernatus, Jo, Le Grand Restaurant and La Soupe aux Choux. Expect them to be available in the next days.

Thanks for your patience, and, once again, let me wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009!

Earlier this year, to celebrate Louis de Funès' 25th death anniversary, I told you that I was working on a complete update of the site's multimedia contents. And, today, for the website's 8th birthday, you can now discover this new bunch of photos and sounds, extracted from scratch.

More than 1000 new photos and several dozens of new sound samples can now be discovered on the Photos and Sounds pages; new stuff entirely made from my very own records of Louis de Funès' films, either from DVDs, DVB-T or satellite television recordings, progressively replacing the old files, for which I would like to thank Christian Petit gracefully, for allowing me to use, during all these years, some of the files he made available on DeFunes.org.

The number of new files being quite huge, I must however ask you to wait a few hours more, so that all files can be sent to the server. Meanwhile, you can discover a new feature of the website: you'll now be able to choose to view this website in stretched mode, automatically fitted to the available space on your screen. The "Auto Size/Fixed Size" button on the top part of the website serves this purpose. Using it, you can switch to a fixed width display to an automatically stretching display and vice-versa, from any webpage, to your convenience, no matter if you choose to use frames or not, the two display modes being completely independant and self-completing. This new display mode should help you to view all new photos in a more convenient way.

Hoping that this new content will help you to recall the best films starring Louis de Funès, let me finish by wishing you an excellent holiday season.

25 years ago, on January 27th, 1983, Louis de Funès passed away, after suffering from a third heart attack.

To mark the occasion, I plan to offer you, in the very next weeks, new photos and sounds from the best Louis de Funès films.

As I've been able to grab, these last years, many of his films in digital format, either on DVD or from DVB-T networks, I'm going to give a cleansweep on the website's multimedia contents, by offering you much better quality files, thanks to these new already-digital video sources.

These new contents being rather big in size, they'll be progressively uploaded during the next weeks; of course, until then, the old files will remain available. Stay tuned for the next update!