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EAN : 9782258200111
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 368
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Armande, or Molière's Sorrow

Release date : 06/01/2022
Armande Béjart keeps a diary for a year, starting on 17 February 1699, 26 years after Molière’s death. It is the intimate and secret story of a woman questioning her direction in life.
Having worked for more than fifteen years on Molière, André Versaille decides to give voice to Armande’s perspective on the playwright, both as his wife and as an actress in the most famous theatre company in France. Twenty-six years after Molière’s death, after a life imbued with theatre, amorous passions,... Having worked for more than fifteen years on Molière, André Versaille decides to give voice to Armande’s perspective on the playwright, both as his wife and as an actress in the most famous theatre company in France. Twenty-six years after Molière’s death, after a life imbued with theatre, amorous passions, licentiousness and disillusionment, the retired Armande looks back at her life and over the course of nearly a year she devotes every evening to recalling episodes from her past, the daily adventures of her troupe, and the major scandals, quarrels, infighting, fairy-tale moments, and instants of madness. And at the same time, she revisits her relationship with Molière, who in her view was just too wedded to his art to satisfy the needs of a young woman like herself.
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EAN : 9782258200111
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 368
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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