Feydeau
Britishnoun
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According to Bertrand de Feydeau, vice-president of French preservation group Fondation du Patrimoine, France no longer has giant oak trees of the same size and maturity that were used to build the original structure.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2019
At the Milwaukee Rep, I did a play called “Cat Among the Pigeons,” which is a Feydeau farce, and I played the ingénue in that, or the soubrette.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2019
Still, there were scenes out of a Feydeau farce at Kahn’s Philadelphia offices.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017
This week: A farce by Feydeau, a Greek tragedy reimagined, and a meditation on small-town life in America.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2015
M. Ernest Feydeau put aside every doubtful piece of information and all that appeared susceptible of being interpreted in more than one way.
From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de)
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