La Folle de Chaillot

A play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play has two acts and follows the convention of the classical unities. The story concerns an eccentric woman who lives in Paris and her struggles against the straitlaced authority figures in her life.

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Translated into English as The Madwoman of Chaillot. Translated into Afrikaans as Die Mal Vrou van Chaillot.