Word: perrichon
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...George, who, mirabile dictu, has come to visit, not to lecture, has said that "Babbitt" remains the most popular American novel in England. The little salesman, he asserts, with his squandered energy, his lusts, and his pathetic aspirations is not only one of the world's heroes like M. Perrichon, but is, for the Englishman, the prototype of the American...
Many readers of the novel have thought Babbitt, like M. Perrichon, grossly exaggerated to prove a point. There is perhaps a suggestion of Babbitt in every American salesman, but every salesman is not therefore a Babbitt...
...production will be under the auspices of the French Drama Society of which Professor Henri Lichtenberger of the Sorbonne, now lecturing at the University, is honorary president. On January 25 and 26 "Blanchette," by Eugene Brieux, will be presented. "Le Gendre de M. Poirier," "Le Voyage de M. Perrichon," "L'Abbe Constantin," "Le Chemineau" and "Le Danseur Inconnu" will follow in the order named. Season tickets for the six plays may be obtained for $24 at the Toy Theatre. Regular prices will prevail. Members of the Cercle Francais may obtain seats at a reduction of 25 per cent...
...contemporaries were "gleaners of Moliere's harvest." One of Moliere's most successful types, that of the bourgeois who is bold abroad but with his wife "timide," is often well used by Labiche. "L'Auvergnat," acted by the Cercle Francais in 1888--"Le Voyage de M. Perrichon" and "La Poudre aux Yeux," also produced by the Cercle, are three of his most successful plays. Others of his best known works are "Le Chapeau de Paille d'Italie," "La Cagnotte," "Le Misanthrope," "Celimare, le Bien Aime," and "Le Plus Heureux des Trois...
PARK THEATRE-Matinee; M. Coquelin in "Le Juif Polonise." Evening; "Le Voyage de M. Perrichon...