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
Feydeau farce bends toward tragedy here, and then bends back again.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2017
You won’t see this many exits and entrances outside of a Feydeau farce.
From The Guardian • May 15, 2016
Nevertheless, having full confidence in his own powers, he was not discouraged, and in 1804 his one-act opera of "Milton" was performed successfully at the Théatre Feydeau.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
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