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  • "libéral conservateur" avec les Lib Dems de Nick Clegg, et annoncé le lancement d'un audit sur les "folles" dépenses

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  • At the Salpêtrière, Jane Avril danced as therapy and took part in the annual bal des folles , a ball of the "mad women," open to the public and a fixture on the Paris social scene.

    The Artistry of Toulouse-Lautrec and His Dancing Muse Jane Avril Paul Levy 2011

  • Despite a few overly obvious moments, it was a modest and poignant film not unworthy of "La cage aux folles," by which it was clearly inspired, and has since become something of a cult classic.

    Choking on Sequins Terry Teachout 2011

  • The reason why the stage version of "La cage aux folles" works is that it preserves this same distinction: You care about the characters, just as you do in the film.

    Choking on Sequins Terry Teachout 2011

  • There was no place for a small child in her studio where she worked, or in the Parisian cafés where she smoked and drank the afternoons away, or at the wild socializing in the evenings, the crazy parties of les années folles that competed in outrageousness.

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  • At the Salpêtrière, Jane Avril danced as therapy and took part in the annual bal des folles , a ball of the "mad women," open to the public and a fixture on the Paris social scene.

    The Artistry of Toulouse-Lautrec and His Dancing Muse Jane Avril Paul Levy 2011

  • But as Vincent Bouvet and G é rard Durozoi make clear in this captivating portrait of les ann é es folles , life during these " crazy years " in Paris was hardly picturesque for most who lived there.

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  • Her novels and short stories, set in exotic Algeria, were a great success among readers of the années folles and were also praised by critics who admired her acute perception of the Muslim soul.

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  • Leading stylist Lelong, who led the années folles fashion movement, proclaimed in a 1926 issue of Vogue that he "made modern dresses for modern women."

    Roaring Into Fashion 2007

  • I particularly like the idea of the Belgian embassy in Paris being known as "la cage aux folles" and, of course, Ambassador Schmidt also having Marc Uyttendaele, husband of Laurette Onkelinx, the Belgian Minister of Justice.

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