Barrault
Americannoun
noun
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The stillness, shot through with dancers’ gestures of intimate dismay, recalls the thoughtful, mesmerizing Jean-Louis Barrault, as the mime in Marcel Carné’s “Les Enfants du Paradis.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2016
For Barrault, the woman behind all of the books remains a complex and fascinating presence.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2015
In Paris, and later back in New York, she studied theater, movement and visual art with eminences including the stage director Erwin Piscator, the actor and mime Jean-Louis Barrault and the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann.
From New York Times • May 13, 2015
He has a face like mime – Barrault from Les Enfants du Paradis – oval face, arching eyebrows, animated, almost over-animated.
From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2010
"What think you, gentlemen, was it that lost the Duke of Montmorency his head?" said Cardinal Zapata to Bautru and Barrault, envoys of France, whom he met in the antechamber of the King of Spain.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Black, Robert
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