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| | Footlight Notes - Home - Week ending 21 February 2004 |
 | | To avert the imminent danger of losing his crown, Louis places his reliance on soothsayers and astrologers; his counsellors are knaves or cowards working only for their own ends, to fill their pockets or sever their ambition. |
 | | He is to have his chance; for one week he shall be, not king indeed, but the next thing to it, Grand Constable of France: he shall taste of honour, power, and wealth, but after seven days he shall be hanged for mocking the king at the Fir Cone Tavern. |
 | | A truly beautiful performance is that of Miss Suzanne Sheldon, as Huguette du Hamel, known as "the Abbess," one of the frequenters of the Fir Cone Tavern, who loves Villon, and proves it by thrusting herself between the poet and Thibaut d'Aussigny's dagger, and by taking for herself the death-blow indented for her love. |
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