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| | France-diplomatie [Label France, magazine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The two giants of French comedy, Louis de Funès and Bourvil, in Gérard Ourys Le Corniaud, which is one of the French peoples favourite films. |
 | | During the 1960s, that he dominated almost uncontested, de Funès was an over-the-top version of that average Frenchman who "blows a fuse" on screen, adding to a disturbingly normal physique that grimacing mask that made him an intergenerational star. |
 | | Their association was right on target, for they symbolise two sides of the French character, one rural and submissive (Bourvil), the other urban and domineering (de Funès), the former playing the naïve character and the latter revealing gems of cowardice. |
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