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Frédéric Forestier

French film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3089814 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frédéric Forestier (born 1969) is a French director.

Filmography

Director

1993 Paranoïa (short film)

1997 The Peacekeeper

2002 Le Boulet - More than 3 million ticket sales in France.

2005 Les Parrains - More than 600,000 ticket sales in France.

2008 Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques - More than 6 million ticket sales in France.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Frédéric Forestier” is french film director. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Frédéric, Forestier and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1993, 1997, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-01-01. For this dossier, Frédéric, Forestier and French is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “french film director” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3089814. VIAF identifies the subject as 32217606. The Library of Congress control number is no2008083840. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1993, 1997 and 2002.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Frédéric Forestier”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Frédéric Forestier primary sources, Frédéric Forestier archive and Frédéric research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Frédéric Forestier”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Frédéric Forestier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.