Feydeau
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It’s a farce — a French farce, literally, and stylistically, a la Feydeau, with characters appearing and disappearing, changing costumes and identities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
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
With and without music, Ms. Darrieux had a long and varied stage career in France, taking on dozens of roles in works by Noël Coward, Françoise Sagan, Feydeau and other playwrights.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2017
M. Ernest Feydeau, in a popular story of very bad principles, seems to hit the right nail on the head.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
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