Gerald Depardieu

Tepidly Paced ‘The Duchess of Langeais’ a Costume Drama Lacking the Dramatic

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CHICAGO – Honoré de Balzac is a famous French writer from the post-Napoleonic age who focused on the societal mores with a sense of realism that hadn’t been seen in literature until that point. He reveled in the oblique moral ambiguity of the human condition.

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