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There are few writers so capable of mixing ideas with gaudy, glorious coups de theatre, and few so capable of messing with your head.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2013

It was grand spectacle marked less by an individual style than several coups de theatre.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2011

"Ah, those are silly coups de theatre," exclaimed Napoleon.

From Napoleon and Blucher by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)