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 (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,...
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The Lame Devil (film) (redirect from Le Diable boiteux (film))
The Lame Devil (UK: The Devil Who Limped; original title: Le Diable boiteux, French for "the devil with a limp") is a 1948 French black-and-white historical...
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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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He wrote a number of successful opéras comiques, such as Le Diable boiteux (1782) and Le Mariage singulier (1787). His son Antoine-Pierre-Charles Favart...
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Somnambule (1827) La Sylphide (1832) Le Diable boiteux (1836) La Fille du Danube (1836) La Gipsy (1839) Le Diable amoureux (1840) Giselle (1841) La Jolie...
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Saint Helena in 1821. Guitry had played Talleyrand before, in 1948's Le Diable boiteux. Yves Montand appears as Marshal Lefebvre and Maria Schell as Marie-Louise...
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performance of the Spanish Cachucha (from the 1836 Coralli/Gide ballet Le Diable boiteux) that Elssler outshone all rivals. Elssler was not Spanish, but her...
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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 an...
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lago in 1830s London, and cemented its fame in Jean Coralli's ballet Le Diable boiteux (1836, Vienna). Gilbert and Sullivan sets the dance for the entire...
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fantastic novel which suggested to Alain-René Lesage the idea for Le Diable boiteux (1707). The plot presents a rascal student that hides in an astrologer's...
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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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Darius Milhaud's Les Malheurs d'Orphée, Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos and Organ Concerto, Jean Françaix's Le Diable boîteux and Sérénade pour...
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David le Boiteux (c.1550–1612) was Recteur or Principal of the Acadèmie de Calvin in Geneva from 1592 to 1595, Pasteur in Russin from 1577 and in Geneva...
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Les Deux pigeons, André Messager, 1886 Le Diable amoureux, Napoléon Henri Reber and François Benoist, 1840 Le Diable boiteux, Casimir Gide, 1836 Le Diable...
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(This was adapted to 18th-century France by Alain-René Lesage's 1707 Le Diable boiteux.)[citation needed] The novel has been translated several times into...
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7 May 2012. (in French) Jean Boiteux n'est plus, lequipe.fr, 12 April 2010. (in French) Bordeaux : 409 nageurs dans le grand bain. Published by France...
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List of films: L (section Le)
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (2022) The Lame Devil (1948, French: Le Diable boiteux) Lamerica (1994) Lammbock (2001) Lan Yu (2001) Lancelot du Lac (1974)...
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Jean Françaix (category People from Le Mans)
quartet (1935) Le Malheurs de Sophie, ballet (1935) Piano concerto (1936) Cinq portraits de jeunes filles, piano (1936) Le Diable boiteux, Opera (1937)...
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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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(the first book printed in Hebrew in London) Alain-René Lesage – Le Diable boiteux (The Devil upon Two Sticks) Edward Lhuyd – Archaeologia Britannica:...
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extremely self-conscious about this from a young age, nicknaming himself le diable boîteux (French for "the limping devil", after the nickname given to Asmodeus...
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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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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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1857) Le Diable boiteux à Paris (Paris: Librairie nouvelle, 1858) Le Diable boiteux en province (Paris: Librairie nouvelle, 1858) Le Diable boiteux au village...
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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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des pirates 1836: Le Diable boiteux, ballet pantomime in 3 acts, with Edmond Burat de Gurgy and Fanny Elssler 1838: La Volière ou les Oiseaux de Boccace...
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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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