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Le roi s'amuse, the Glossary

Le roi s'amuse (literally, The King Amuses Himself or The King Has Fun) is a French play in five acts written by Victor Hugo.^[1]

42 relations: Censorship in France, Château de la Tournelle, Clément Marot, Comédie-Française, Damon Runyon, Diane de Poitiers, Edward VII, François Jules Edmond Got, France, Francis I of France, Freedom of speech, Giuseppe Verdi, Google Books, Hermann Benke, Jean de Poitiers, Jean Mounet-Sully, Jeanne Julia Bartet, Jester, Ken Stott, Léo Delibes, Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique, Liane Haid, Louis Philippe I, Louis XII, Louvre Palace, Mantua, Michel Simon, Paris, Project Gutenberg, Rigoletto, Rigoletto (1918 film), Roland Bertin, Royal National Theatre, Sarah Bernhardt, Seine, The King's Jester, The Man Who Laughs, Tony Harrison, Triboulet, Venice, Victor Hugo, 6th arrondissement of Paris.
1832 plays
Biographical plays about French royalty
Cultural depictions of Francis I of France
Fiction set in the 1520s
Paris in fiction
Plays by Victor Hugo

Censorship in France

France has a long history of governmental censorship, particularly in the 16th to 19th centuries, but today freedom of press is guaranteed by the French Constitution and instances of governmental censorship are limited.

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Château de la Tournelle

The Château de la Tournelle was a now-demolished castle on the left bank of the Seine in the 5th arrondissement of Paris on the quai de la Tournelle.

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Clément Marot

Clément Marot (23 November 1496 – 12 September 1544) was a French Renaissance poet.

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Comédie-Française

The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theatres in France.

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Damon Runyon

Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer.

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Diane de Poitiers

Diane de Poitiers (9 January 1500 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and prominent courtier.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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François Jules Edmond Got

François Jules Edmond Got (1 October 1822, in Lignerolles, Orne – 21 March 1901, in Passy, a district in Paris) was a French stage actor, comedian, and opera librettist.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Francis I of France

Francis I (er|; Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.

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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Hermann Benke

Hermann Benke (1866–1937) was an Austrian stage and film actor.

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Jean de Poitiers

Jean de Poitiers, seigneur de Saint Vallier (c. 1475 – 1529) was a French nobleman best known as the father of Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France.

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Jean Mounet-Sully

Mounet-Sully (28 February 1841 – 3 March 1916), a French actor, was born at Bergerac.

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Jeanne Julia Bartet

Julia Bartet was the stage name of Jeanne-Julie Regnault (28 October 1854 – 18 November 1941), a French actress.

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Jester

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.

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Ken Stott

Kenneth Campbell Stott (born 19 October 1954) is a Scottish stage, television and film actor who won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1995 in the play Broken Glass at Royal National Theatre.

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Léo Delibes

Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas.

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Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique

Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique (The Annals of Theatre and Music) was an annual French periodical which covered French dramatic and lyric theatre for 42 years, from 1875 to 1916.

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Liane Haid

Juliane "Liane" Haid (16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000) was an Austrian actress and singer.

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Louis Philippe I

Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France.

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Louis XII

Louis XII (27 June 14621 January 1515) was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504.

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Louvre Palace

The Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.

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Mantua

Mantua (Mantova; Lombard and Mantua) is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Lombardy, and capital of the province of the same name.

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Michel Simon

Michel Simon (9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss actor of German origin.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.

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Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Rigoletto (1918 film)

Rigoletto or The King Amuses Himself (German: Der König amüsiert sich) is a 1918 Austrian silent historical film directed by Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck and starring Wilhelm Klitsch, Hermann Benke and Liane Haid.

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Roland Bertin

Roland Bertin (16 November 1930 – 20 February 2024) was a French stage and film actor.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'', Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.

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Seine

The Seine is a river in northern France.

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The King's Jester

The King's Jester (Il re si diverte) is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Michel Simon, María Mercader and Rossano Brazzi.

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The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs (also published under the title By Order of the King from its subtitle in French) is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit.

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Tony Harrison

Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright.

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Triboulet

Triboulet (1479–1536), also known as Le Févrial or under his family name Ferrial,Some modern sources claim that Triboulet was called Nicolas Ferrial, however the accounts of the court of Francis I mention "Nicolas Le Feurial, brother of Triboullet" besides the jester himself.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_roi_s'amuse

Also known as The King Amuses Himself, The King Takes His Amusement.

Le roi s'amuse, the Glossary

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See also

1832 plays

Biographical plays about French royalty

Cultural depictions of Francis I of France

Fiction set in the 1520s

Paris in fiction

Plays by Victor Hugo

References