Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Napoleonic era than he had been with the Bourbons' cheka; both regimes jailed him for the same apolitical crimes. But Charenton's enlightened director M. Coulmier encouraged him to write and direct plays for the inmates, and Charenton became a sort of high camp Vauxhall for the Parisian upper crust, who appeared regularly to see the former Marquis' bombastic plays and hysterical associates...
...believe in dragons, shrugged it away. Even when the Mekong River started to rise, he attributed it simply to the annual monsoon rains. But the river kept on rising, to a 40-year high, which put the lower sections of the city 'deep under swirling brown water. Suddenly, Parisian education or no, the prince changed his mind: he could be blamed for the disaster unless he followed the dragon's instructions. He called on Kong Le to perform mass atonement ceremonies...
...loudly at Mass. The laughter he suppressed, but there was nothing much he could do about sodomy, since his brother, the Due d'Orleans, and his best general, old Vendóme, were notorious sodomites. The black arts were another thing Louis frowned on. Witchcraft, magic, and a Parisian underworld of pimps and professional poisoners had been involved in a plot to eclipse the Sun King...
...STEAL A MILLION and live happily ever after furnishes the amoral moral of William Wyler's Parisian comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole as the serendipitous partners in crime...
...STEAL A MILLION and live happily ever after furnishes the amoral moral of William Wyler's Parisian comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole as the serendipitous partners in crime...