Le roi s'amuse
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Le roi s'amuse is a French play in five acts written by Victor Hugo. First performed on 22 November 1832 but banned by the government after one evening, the play was used for Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 ope
The character Triboulet (sculpture by Sarah Bernhardt)
"Triboulet"; illustration for Le Roi s'amuse by J. A. Beaucé and Georges Rouget
Fiftieth anniversary production of Le Roi s'amuse at the Comédie-Française.
The Man Who Laughs
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The Man Who Laughs is a philosophical and dramatic novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. It takes place in England beginning in 1690 and exte
Le roi s'amuse
…dishonour...". As a victim of royal despotism, the character of the deformed Triboulet is a precursor of the disfigured Gwynplaine in Hugo's 1869 novel The Man Who Laughs (L'Homme qui rit); in Act 2 Scene 1, Triboulet says « Je suis l'homme qui rit, il est l'homme qui tue ». ("I am the man who laughs, he [Saltabadil] is…
"At the Green Box", frontispiece to volume II of the 1869 English translation
Le phare des Casquets (Hugo) 1866
Homo howling at death - tail-piece for "Le Livre d'or de Victor Hugo" by Paul Adolphe Kauffmann
Azerbaijani actress Marziyya Davudova as Duchess Josiana (1929–1930)