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    Le roi s'amuse (French pronunciation: [lə ʁwa samyz]; literally, The King Amuses Himself or The King Has Fun) is a French play in five acts written by...
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    libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors...
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  • on a window pane. Victor Hugo used this phrase verbatim in his play, Le roi s'amuse, on which Rigoletto is based. Fleury François Richard depicted in an...
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    Play, a translation and adaptation by Tony Harrison of Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse, for the National Theatre, London, 1996. In 1997, he was nominated for...
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    game Balatro. Triboulet appears as a character in the Victor Hugo play Le roi s'amuse, and in the Verdi opera inspired by the play, Rigoletto. Triboulet appears...
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  • 1851 opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, itself based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. The film stars Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford, Agnes Bruckner...
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  • story was the inspiration for a character in Victor Hugo's 1832 play Le roi s'amuse who became Count Monterone when Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi...
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    Itinerant court in European kingdoms in the Early Middle Ages. Maison du Roi in France during the Ancien Régime Ministry of the Imperial Court in Imperial...
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    Mantua. Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse) is set in Mantua. Austro-Hungarian authorities in Venice forced him...
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    Victor Hugo (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    Cromwell (1827) Les Orientales (1829) Hernani (1830) Marion de Lorme (1831) Les Feuilles d'automne (Autumn Leaves; 1831) Le roi s'amuse (1832) Lucrezia...
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