Word: menteur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme of the constitutional liar, temporarily staving off detection by fresh falsehoods, but in the end hopelessly enmeshed in the network of his deceptions, was handled in masterly fashion more than a century before Goldoni by Corneille in "Le Menteur". In contrast to the French author's dignified verse-comedy, Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" ("The Liar") is often broadly farcical...