COMÉDIE HUMAINE

Meaning of COMÉDIE HUMAINE in English

foreign term Etymology: French human comedy ; the whole variety of human life

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COMÉDIE HUMAINE — foreign term Etymology: French : human comedy : the whole variety of human life
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COMEDIE HUMAINE — Pronunciation: ko ̇ -m ā -d ē - -men Function: foreign term Etymology: F : human comedy : the whole …
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COMÉDIE LARMOYANTE — foreign term Etymology: French tearful comedy ; sentimental comedy
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COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE — National theatre of France. The world's longest-established national theatre, it was founded in 1680 by the merger of two theatrical …
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FARCE — farse, buffa, comedie; (cul.) farce
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COMEDY — comedie
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COMEDIENNE — noun Etymology: French comédienne, feminine of comédien comedian, from comédie Date: circa 1859 a woman who is a comedian
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ZOLA, ÉMILE (-ÉDOUARD-CHARLES-ANTOINE) — born April 2, 1840, Paris, France died Sept. 28, 1902, Paris French novelist and critic. Raised in straitened circumstances, Zola …
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THÉÂTRE NATIONAL POPULAIRE (TNP) — French national theatre created in 1920 to bring theatre to the general public. Under the direction of its founder, Firmin …
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THEATRE — I Building or space in which performances are given before an audience. It contains an auditorium and stage. In ancient …
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TALMA, FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH — born Jan. 16, 1763, Paris, France died Oct. 19, 1826, Paris French actor and theatre manager. He made his debut …
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RENOIR, JEAN — born Sept. 15, 1894, Paris, France died Feb. 12, 1979, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. French film director. The son of …
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POULENC, FRANCIS (JEAN MARCEL)
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MOREAU, JEANNE — born Jan. 23, 1928, Paris, France French film actress. At age 20 she became the youngest member of the Comédie-Française …
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MARIVAUX, PIERRE (CARLET DE CHAMBLAIN DE) — born Feb. 4, 1688, Paris, France died Feb. 12, 1763, Paris French playwright. Born into an aristocratic family, he joined …
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GOLDONI, CARLO — born Feb. 25, 1707, Venice died Feb. 6, 1793, Paris, France Italian playwright. He practiced law but preferred to write …
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FRANÇAISE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Académie Française Action Française Comédie Française Guyane Française Polynésie Française
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FEYDEAU, GEORGES (-LÉON-JULES-MARIE) — born Dec. 8, 1862, Paris, France died June 5, 1921, Paris French playwright. Also an actor and director, he wrote …
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ÉLUARD, PAUL — orig. Eugène Grindel born Dec. 14, 1895, Saint-Denis, Paris, France died Nov. 18, 1952, Charenton-le-Pont French poet. In 1919 he …
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COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE — Italian theatrical form that flourished throughout Europe in the 16th–18th centuries. The characters, many portrayed by actors wearing masks including …
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COCTEAU, JEAN — born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France died Oct. 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris French poet, playwright, and film …
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CHARPENTIER, MARC-ANTOINE — born 1634, Paris, France died Feb. 24, 1704, Paris French composer. He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Lully as music …
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BERNHARDT, SARAH — orig. Henriette-Rosine Bernard born Oct. 22/23, 1844, Paris, France died March 26, 1923, Paris French actress. The illegitimate child of …
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BÉJART FAMILY — Seventeenth-century French theatrical family. Brothers Joseph (с 1617–59) and Louis (1630–78) and their sisters Madeleine (1618–72) and Geneviève (с 1622–75) …
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HUMAN NATURE — noun Etymology: Middle English nature humayne, from Middle French nature humaine : the nature of man: a. : the complex …
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MAN'S FATE — (French, La Condition Humaine ), a novel (1933) by André Malraux.
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HUMAN COMEDY, THE — (French, La Comédie Humaine ), a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842-48) by Honoré de Balzac.
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HUMAN — ■ adjective relating to or characteristic of ~kind. ↘of or characteristic of people as opposed to God or animals or …
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ROMAN-FLEUVE — (French: novel stream), series of novels, each one complete in itself, that deals with one central character, an era of …
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HUMOUR — also spelled Humor (from Latin liquid, or fluid), in early Western physiological theory, one of the four fluids of the …
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VIDOCQ, FRANOIS(-EUGNE) — born July 24, 1775, Arras, Fr. died May 11, 1857, Paris adventurer and detective who helped create the police de …
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VIDAL DE LA BLACHE, PAUL — born Jan. 22, 1845, Pzenas, France died April 5, 1918, Tamaris-sur-Mer French geographer who had a profound influence on the …
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PYRENEES — Spanish Pirineos, French Pyrnes, Catalan Pireneus mountain chain of southwestern Europe, consisting of flat-topped massifs and folded linear ranges stretching …
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POULENC, FRANCIS
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PERRON, (CHARLES) EDGAR DU — born Nov. 2, 1899, Meester Cornelis, Java died May 14, 1940, Bergen, Neth. writer and critic, cofounder with Menno ter …
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METCHNIKOFF, LIE — born May 16, 1845, near Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine] died July 16, 1916, Paris, France lie Metchnikoff. …
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MALRAUX, ANDR(-GEORGES) — born Nov. 3, 1901, Paris died Nov. 23, 1976, Paris French novelist, art historian, and statesman, who became an active …
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MAINE DE BIRAN, MARIE-FRANOIS-PIERRE — original surname Gonthier De Biran born Nov. 29, 1766, Bergerac, Fr. died July 20, 1824, Paris French statesman, empiricist philosopher, …
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LYDGATE, JOHN — born c. 1370, Lidgate, Suffolk, Eng. died c. 1450, Bury St. Edmunds? English poet, known principally for long moralistic and …
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LARTET, DOUARD ARMAND ISIDORE HIPPOLYTE — born April 1801, Saint Guiraud, near Castelnau-Barbarens, Fr. died January 1871, Seissan French geologist, archaeologist, and a principal founder of …
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GARNIER, (JEAN-LOUIS-) CHARLES — born Nov. 6, 1825, Paris died Aug. 3, 1898, Paris French architect of the Beaux-Arts style, famed as the creator …
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GARCA, MANUEL (PATRICIO RODRGUEZ) — born March 17, 1805, Madrid died July 1, 1906, London the most renowned European teacher of singing in the 19th …
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FRENCH LITERATURE — the body of written works produced in the French language, one of the five major Romance languages to develop from …
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FEBVRE, LUCIEN PAUL VICTOR
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BOULE, MARCELLIN — born Jan. 1, 1861, Montsalvy, France died July 4, 1942, Montsalvy in full Pierre-marcellin Boule French geologist, paleontologist, and physical …
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BEIRUT — Arabic Bayrut, French Beyrouth, capital, chief port, and largest city of Lebanon. It occupies a metropolitan area of approximately 26 …
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BALZAC, HONORE DE — Additional reading Charles V. Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, Histoire des oeuvres de Honor de Balzac, 3rd rev. ed. (1888, reprinted 1968), …
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TALMA, FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH — born Jan. 16, 1763, Paris, France died Oct. 19, 1826, Paris French actor and theatre manager. He made his debut …
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BERNHARDT, SARAH — orig. Henriette-Rosine Bernard born Oct. 22/23, 1844, Paris, France died March 26, 1923, Paris French actress. The illegitimate child of …
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TRAGICOMEDY — Synonyms and related words : Thalia, arlequinade, black comedy, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, camp, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, …
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SLAPSTICK — Synonyms and related words : Atticism, Thalia, acting, agile wit, arlequinade, black comedy, black humor, bladder, broad, broad comedy, buffoonery, …
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SITUATION COMEDY — Synonyms and related words : Grand Guignol, Passion play, Thalia, Tom show, antimasque, arlequinade, audience success, ballet, black comedy, bomb, …
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MUSICAL COMEDY — Synonyms and related words : Broadway musical, Singspiel, Thalia, arlequinade, ballad opera, ballet, ballet divertissement, black comedy, broad comedy, burlesque, …
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MUSICAL — Synonyms and related words : Broadway musical, Singspiel, Thalia, achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, arlequinade, ballad opera, ballet, …
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MIME — Synonyms and related words : Roscius, Thalia, act, act a part, act as, act as foil, act out, actor, actress, …
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HIGH CAMP — Synonyms and related words : Babbittry, Thalia, arlequinade, bad taste, black comedy, bourgeois taste, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, camp, campiness, …
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FARCE
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COMEDY — Synonyms and related words : Atticism, Thalia, agile wit, arlequinade, black comedy, black humor, bladder, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, camp, …
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CAMP — Synonyms and related words : American Party, Anti-Monopoly Party, Babbittry, Bull Moose Party, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party, …
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BURLESQUE — Synonyms and related words : Atticism, Broadway, Thalia, aggrandize, aggrandizement, agile wit, amplification, amplify, anamorphosis, ape, arlequinade, bad likeness, ballyhoo, …
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THALIA — Synonyms and related words : Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, arlequinade, artistic imagination, black comedy, broad comedy, burlesque, …
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