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    Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (French: [ʒiʁodu]; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered...
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    Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by the German Romantic Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué...
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    The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (category Plays by Jean Giraudoux)
    Troie n'aura pas lieu) is a play written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. In 1955 it was translated into English by Christopher Fry with the...
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    Gaula came to enjoy in the Iberian Peninsula in the 16th century. In Jean Giraudoux's play Ondine, which starred Audrey Hepburn on Broadway in 1954, a knight-errant...
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    Eugene O'Neill, based on Aeschylus Electra, 1937 play by Jean Giraudoux The Flies, a 1943 play by Jean-Paul Sartre, modernizing the Electra myth by introducing...
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  • (novel), by Margit Sandemo the title character of Tessa (play), by Jean Giraudoux Tessa Young, Main Character in the movie, After (2019 film) played by...
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    The Madwoman of Chaillot (category Plays by Jean Giraudoux)
    Folle de Chaillot) is a play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play...
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    music adaptions of the play. The 1939 play Ondine by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux is also based upon Fouqué's novella, as is Ondine, a ballet by composer...
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    an autobiographical book by Olive Schreiner, 1928 Ondine, a play by Jean Giraudoux, 1939 Undine geht, by Ingeborg Bachmann Haunted Waters, an adaptation...
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  • The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (category Books by Jean Baudrillard)
    title is a reference to the play The Trojan War Will Not Take Place by Jean Giraudoux (in which characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows is inevitable)...
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  • by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, adapted from his own 1922 novel, Siegfried et le Limousin. The novel had launched Giraudoux's literary career, and...
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    staging Jean-Pierre Grenier, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique 1958: Tessa by Jean Giraudoux from the work of Basil Dean and Margaret Kennedy, staging Jean-Pierre...
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    written by Jean Giraudoux, at the Théâtre Pigalle 1935: original production of The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, written by Jean Giraudoux, starring...
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    William Shakespeare Duel of Angels 1958 Apollo Theatre Paola Jean-Louis Barrault Jean Giraudoux Christopher Fry Look After Lulu! 1959 Royal Court Theatre...
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    classical themes have been reinterpreted by dramatists Jean Anouilh, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Giraudoux in France, Eugene O'Neill in America, and T. S. Eliot...
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    was also the subject of a play by Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38 (1929), the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many...
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  • writers Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Marie Bonaparte, Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Stefan Zweig, and Andre Malraux, and the Mexican revolutionaries...
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    apartment 44 rue Hamelin, in Chaillot, in 1922. The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux is set in a café on Place de l'Alma. "Paris et ses quartiers" (PDF)...
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  • Istanbul State Theatre - 1981 The Trojan War Will Not Take Place : Jean Giraudoux - Istanbul State Theatre - 1980 Mucize 2: Aşk - 2019 Hayat Öpücüğü -...
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    dramatist Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944). Composed as a tragedy set in the biblical city of Sodom, the play was first published in 1943. Although Giraudoux was...
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    Bye Braverman. Elpenor is the subject of the short novel Elpénor by Jean Giraudoux, published in 1919, which retells some of the stories of the Odyssey...
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    Judith is a play written in 1931 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. In ancient Palestine, an Assyrian army is attacking a community of Jewish people....
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  • Siegfried et le Limousin (category Novels by Jean Giraudoux)
    novel by Jean Giraudoux published in 1922 by Grasset. This novel is famous for having brought success to its author. In the story, Giraudoux explores...
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    2021. "Sir Robert Greg". The British Museum. Retrieved 3 August 2021. Jean Giraudoux (2005). Cahiers n°32 – Lettres à Suzanne II 1915-1943 (in French). Éditions...
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  • Year Title Author 1997 'Tis Pity She's a Whore John Ford 2000 The Trojan War Will Not Take Place Jean Giraudoux...
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    Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Bellac is where the French author Jean Giraudoux, writer of L'Apollon de Bellac, was born in 1882. His house has been...
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  • (1875-1944) Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944) Sacha Guitry (1885–1957) Paul Gury (1888-1974) Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) Louis Verneuil (1893–1952)...
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    Mankind by Karl Kraus, dir. Luca Ronconi The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux, dir. Luca Ronconi Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, dir. Nanni Loy...
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    is a two-act play written in 1937 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. It was the first Giraudoux play to employ the staging of Louis Jouvet. Based on the...
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    Amphitryon 38 (category Plays by Jean Giraudoux)
    play written in 1929 by the French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the...
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