Word: animaux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's most popular composer, partly because there was no political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished." Now finished, it is a Parisian favorite...
Composer Francis Poulenc, whose frothy, nose-thumbing ballet and cinema music had been the rage of the prewar Left Bank, was last week the most popular musician in Paris. His latest ballet score, Les Animaux Modeles (commissioned by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), had been prevented from delivery by the German occupation. But when the German authorities offered to produce it at the Paris Opera, Poulenc refused coldly, maintained an unimpeachable record of resistance...