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Les Braqueuses

1993 film by Jean-Paul Salomé

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ3231153 ↗
Source-derived summary

Les Braqueuses is a 1994 French comedy crime film, directed by Jean-Paul Salomé.

Plot

Four young women from Montélimar, France resort to robbing a sex shop to help make ends meet. Unfortunately, the 1500 franc (€230) loot isn't enough to cover their bills. Hoping for a bigger payoff, they carefully plan a bank robbery. Will Cécile, Muriel, Bijou and Lola thwart the police and succeed in making off with the money?

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Les Braqueuses” as 1993 film by Jean-Paul Salomé. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1500—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Braqueuses, film and Jean-Paul can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1993 film by Jean-Paul Salomé. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3231153. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 1500.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Les Braqueuses”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Les Braqueuses primary sources, Les Braqueuses archive and Braqueuses 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

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Les Braqueuses” 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.