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His works describe the world with a fierce humor of a somewhat burlesque style, which sometimes turns into black humor. [1]Billetdoux was born in and died in Paris.He was President of the Société des gens de lettres in 1972. [2]
She is the daughter of François Billetdoux, and was a companion of the political journalist Paul Guilbert (died July 2002).. She was an assistant editor on feature films and television.
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
"The Smeraldina's Billet Doux" is a love letter to Belacqua in fractured English by the German-speaking Smeraldina Rima, a character based on Beckett's cousin Peggy Sinclair. Other real-life originals of More Pricks Than Kicks characters include Mary Manning Howe (the Caleken Frica), Ethna MacCarthy (the Alba), and Lucia Joyce (the Syra Cusa).
Le Billet Doux, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1570s. As the praises of François Clouet were sung by the writers of the day, his name was carefully preserved from reign to reign, and there is an ancient and unbroken tradition in the attribution of many of his pictures.
Billet (semi-finished product), a semi-finished cast or rolled metal product; Billet (tack), the straps on an English saddle to which the girth is buckled; Bar stock or billet, in metalworking, a semi-finished product which is usually milled or lathed into a more finished product; Billet (wood), a piece of timber prepared to be split
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Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed "standard" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century.