Word: marquisate
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But London's biggest sensation is a play about the Marquis de Sade, written by a little-known German playwright named Peter Weiss. De Sade is a prisoner in a lunatic asylum during the French Revolution. He holds up the cynical end of long philosophical discussions with the revolutionary...
The full title of this work is The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. Although it has been variously interpreted as a study in meaninglessness and a parable of Hitlerism, few...
In Havana, Castro angrily blamed the attack on Cuban exiles, "equipped, paid and directed by the CIA," in retaliation against Spain for trading with Cuba. The Spaniards were just as angry. The Spanish ambassador in Washington, the Marquis de Merry del Val, acidly wondered how such an incident "could happen...
> Catherine Deneuve, 20, was known all over France when she was 18 as the Folle Twistante because of her appearance in a movie with guitar-swacking Johnny Hallyday. But then Svengali Roger Vadim snared her, paled her complexion, and hollowed out her cheeks for his modern-dress version of the...
Married. Veronica ("Rocky") Balfe Cooper, 51, blonde and still beautiful socialite widow of Hollywood's Gary Cooper; and Dr. John Marquis Converse, 51, Manhattan plastic surgeon, whom she met when she moved back East after Coop's death in 1961; both for the second time; in a civil...