Les Gracques

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Les Gracques
Written by Jean Giraudoux
Original languageFrench
Genre Drama

Les Gracques is an unfinished play by Jean Giraudoux published after the author's death.

Original productions

Les Gracques was published posthumously in 1958 by Éditions Grasset jointly with the novel La Menteuse (English title: The Liar). [1]

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References

  1. Fowlie, Wallace (1967), Dionysus in Paris; A Guide to Contemporary French Theater,p. 132, Meridian Books, Inc, New York.