Le Diable boiteux (English: The Devil upon Two Sticks; lit. 'The Lame Devil') is a novel by the French writer Alain-René Lesage. It is set in Madrid, and...
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Le Diable boiteux (French for The Lame Devil) may refer to: As a French work Le Diable boiteux (novel), 1707 novel by Alain-René Lesage Le Diable boiteux...
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Le Diable boiteux is a ballet in three acts by Jean Coralli, with music by Casimir Gide, which premiered on 1 June 1836 at the Paris Opera. The main roles...
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Alain-René Lesage (redirect from Alain René le Sage)
spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707, Le Diable boiteux), his...
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Asmodeus or Ashmedai may also refer to: Asmodeus, a character in the novel Le Diable boiteux Asmodeus (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character Asmodeus...
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or "The Crippled Devil"), a fantastic novel which suggested to Alain-René Lesage the idea for Le Diable boiteux (1707). The plot presents a rascal student...
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Lost Village (1947) Danger of Death (1947) The Lame Devil (1948, Le Diable boiteux) Return to Life (1949) Miquette (1950) Adémaï au poteau-frontière...
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of Count Belflor and Leonor de Cespedes in Alain-René Lesage's novel Le Diable boiteux (1707). La traición busca el castigo is the basis of John Vanbrugh's...
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Lame Devil (from French: le diable boiteux) may refer to: As a work The Lame Devil (novel) one translation of the 1707 novel by Alain-René Lesage The...
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Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe [fr] after Franz Kafka 1989: L'Or du diable [fr] 1996: Roger Vrigny's novel Le Garçon d’orage was adapted for television by Jérôme Foulon...
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(1692) and Les Bourgeoises de qualité (1700). Dancourt was a prolific author, and produced some sixty plays in all, including Le Diable boiteux (1707, an...
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included Quichotte (1969), La Vie et mort du roi boiteux (1981), Le Mandragore (1982), Le Titanic (1985), Les objets parlent (1986), Mao Tsé Toung ou Soirée...
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instrument servant à faciliter le tracé des tranchées dans l'attaque des places 1813: Épître à Chénier 1814: Le Diable boiteux à Paris, one-act comédie épisodique...
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The Master and Margarita (category 20th-century Russian novels)
to 18th-century France by Alain-René Lesage's 1707 Le Diable boiteux.)[citation needed] The novel has been translated several times into English: Mirra...
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Sylphide to the Novosibirsk Ballet, and Le Papillon, La Vivandière, and "La Cachucha" from Le Diable boiteux to Kirov Ballet. In 1981, he mounted Joseph...
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Juliette Benzoni (section Catherine Novels)
L'Intrus (1993) L'Exilé (1994) Les aventures d'Aldo Morosini (15 novels) 1994 – 2016 Le Boiteux de Varsovie series (4 novels) L'étoile bleue (1994) La rose...
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of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon and had the following issue: Louis I, le Boiteux (1279–1341), first Duke of Bourbon. Blanche of Clermont (1281–1304); married...
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William Combe (section Novels)
Devil upon 2 Sticks in England : being a continuation of Le diable boiteux of Alain-René Lesage (Le Sage). 6 vols (1790–91) Letters between Amelia in London...
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38 (3): 299–324. doi:10.2307/30037010. ISSN 0018-2745. JSTOR 30037010. "Les meilleurs films sur la Révolution française". Vanity Fair (in French). 2020-11-20...
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(Japanese: ▽ノ遊戯, hangul: ▽의 유희), The Beard (Japanese: ひげ, hangul: 수염), BOITEUX · BOITEUSE, and The Empty Stomach (Japanese: 空腹, hangul: 공복). On August...
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novelist Alain-René Lesage adapted the Spanish source in his 1707 novel le Diable boiteux, where he likened him to Cupid. In the book, he is rescued from...
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Jean Anouilh (redirect from Le Boulanger, la Boulangère et le Petit Mitron)
Le Nombril (Paris: La Table Ronde, 1981); translated by Michael Frayn as Number One (London & New York: S. French, 1985). Oedipe, ou Le Roi boiteux:...
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leading comic actor Joseph Felix von Kurz [de], from the French novel Le Diable boiteux by Alain-René Lesage. It was forbidden after two acclaimed performances...
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Nicolas Favart – Le Diable boiteux Denis Fonvizin – The Minor Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian – Le Bon Ménage Louis-Sébastien Mercier Le Déserteur (first...
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Talleyrand walked with a limp, which caused him to later be called le diable boiteux (French for "the lame devil") among other nicknames. In his Memoirs...
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Aleksey Pisemsky (section Novels and novellas)
course, most of Walter Scott's novels, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, Faublas, Le Diable boiteux, The Serapion Brethren, a Persian novel called Haggi Baba... As for...
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first published work was a frontispiece for Alain-René Lesage's novel Le Diable boiteux (1707), which she signed Magdeleine Horthemels fec. Her later work...
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nicknaming himself le diable boîteux (French for "the limping devil", after the nickname given to Asmodeus by Alain-René Lesage in his 1707 novel of the same...
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university and in historical movies (as in Sacha Guitry's 1948 film Le Diable Boiteux [fr]). The pronunciation [mɛːtʁ] (rhymes with maître) is sometimes...
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the French religious icon and war heroine The Lame Devil (French: Le Diable boiteux) (1948) – French historical drama film depicting the life of the titular...
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