Word: ferney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper doll. So do most of Feuchtwanger's supporting players: the pretty Hapsburg queen, Marie Antoinette, with her "Lilac Coterie" of expensive courtiers; the fat and timorous king, who hated rebels on principle; and various noblemen, courtesans, and intriguers of Versailles. The dying Voltaire comes up from Ferney to see his play, Irene, and to give Feuchtwanger a crack...
...unmentionable--and she refuses to try that. She has a pretty hard time because of all the men who appreciate her for the wrong reasons, but manages to stand them off, starving all the while. In desperation she poses as the daughter of an old flame of Jacques Ferney, eminent historian, who was young once, too. She gets away with it for a while, and the ensuing mess, complicated as it is by Ferney's genuine wife and an anxious young man named Pierre, proves to be excellent entertainment. There is a recurrent note having to do with...