Word: aix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before his death in 1944, by the wittily ironic, aromatically pessimistic author of The Madwoman of Chaillot and Tiger at the Gates. It is a suavely chill farewell -a glass of iced champagne held in almost as cold a hand. Called Pour Lucrece in French, it offers-in the Aix-en-Provence of 1868-variations on the old tale of the violated Roman matron who, after bidding her family avenge her, committed suicide. It opens in the best Giraudoux style of artificial high comedy. The ultra-pure wife of Aix's overrighteous new judge, by cutting dead everyone involved...