Word: dauphinate
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...Chapel of Louis XIV at Versailles was resplendent on that morning in 1770 when the dauphin (later Louis XVI) married Marie Antoinette of Austria. Sunlight pierced the stained-glass windows, illuminating the frescoed ceiling and the embroidered brocades and silks of the guests-the aristocracy of Europe and a few lords from the colonies. It was a state affair, too sublime for common folk. Only nobles whose coats of arms bore many quarterings were permitted inside Versailles's marble walls and mirrored hallways. All went smoothly until a thunderstorm rained out a postnuptial display of fireworks...
Carmines' contemporary maid of Manhattan needs no Dauphin to betray her; church, state and even some of her friends vie for that role. She lives in the East Village with Ira the Junkie (Ira Siff) and Tracy (Tracy Moore), a slogan-shouting nobody. The three hail the blessings of unlicensed polyandry by singing "Now we understand the Trinity . . ." Lumbering home one night, Joan (Lee Guilliatt) meets a miniskirted doll (Essie Borden) who is-what else? -the Virgin Mary enjoying a one-day pass from Camp Paradise. The encounter makes a revolutionary of Joan, who goes to her preordained...
...Berrigan case has managed to attract some attention to Harrisburg. The main drawing card is the dynamic Father Phil, who is brought to court every day from the Dauphin County Prison. One night recently a crowd of youngsters staged a vigil outside the jail, singing Peace My Friend and Hear O Lord the Sound of My Call, accompanied by two girls playing guitars. Berrigan supporters are hoping that college spring vacations will bring fresh battalions of the young to the siege of Harrisburg...
...often merge narrative with dialogue so that the two are confusedly inseparable. (They could take lessons from Word, who seemed the only one of the troupe to separate the two voices consistently.) True, there are some pleasantly comic moments-mostly in the second act when the "rapscallions" Duke and Dauphin get to pull-off a few of their own put-ons-as well as one or two true comedians in the hardworking company (the actress who plays the hair-lipped Wilkes girl, in particular), but there also is too much undisciplined scuffling and shuffling about even to allow matters...
...next 20 years he studied war at the head of a ragtag army of freebooters in the Alpine foothills and civil administration as lord of his duchy of Dauphiné. Skill at foreign affairs and espionage he seemed to acquire by osmosis. Stumping around in rough clothes, sneering at courtly chivalry, conferring with his agents (most of whom were disgracefully lowborn), he made the rest of the French nobility decidedly edgy. Even the old Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, in whose court Louis occasionally sought refuge, was disconcerted. Duke Philip's idea of style was three dozen mistresses...