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Coup de Theatre may refer to: Coup de théâtre, a literary term for an unexpected event in a play or a theatrical trick; Coup de Theatre, by Haiku d'Etat, 2004 "Coup de théâtre", a 2015 TV episode of Les Mystères de l'amour "Coup De Théâtre", a track on the 2005 album Soleil 12 by Forgas Band Phenomena
The dramaturge, using a stick to hit the three blows, gathered the theatre staff to begin the show, like a brigadier gathering his men. Through metonymy, the stick itself was called a "brigadier". The theatre brigadier is traditionally made of wood with a piece of theatre pole [definition needed], decorated with red velvet and gold studded nails.
coup de main (pl. coups de main) a surprise attack. In French, [donner] un coup de main means "[to give] a hand" (to give assistance). Even if the English meaning exists as well (as in faire le coup de main), it is old-fashioned. coup d'état (pl. coups d'état) a sudden change in government by force; literally "hit (blow) of state."
Key to vol. 2 of Delarivier Manley's The New Atalantis (1709). Roman à clef (/ r oʊ ˌ m ɒ n ə ˈ k l eɪ / roh-MON ə KLAY, French: [ʁɔmɑ̃n‿a kle]; lit. ' novel with a key ') is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction.
French theatre in the 16th-century followed the same patterns of evolution as the other literary genres of the period. For the first decades of the century, public theatre remained largely tied to its long medieval heritage of mystery plays, morality plays, farces, and soties, although the miracle play was no longer in vogue. Public ...
Entr'acte (or entracte, French pronunciation:; [1] German: Zwischenspiel and Zwischenakt, Italian: intermezzo, Spanish: intermedio and intervalo) means 'between the acts'.It can mean a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonymous to an intermission (this is nowadays the more common meaning in French), but it more often (in English) indicates a piece of music performed between acts ...
Dominic Umile of Prefix gave the album a 7.0 out of 10, commenting that "Coup de Theatre, the second course, parts the sea of mediocre major-label nonsense with refreshingly mixed backgrounds and introspective, melodious and often humorous verse."
Le Théâtre François is a book in three volumes by Samuel Chappuzeau which is the main source of information on French theatre in the 17th century. Its full title is Le Théâtre françois divisé en trois Livres, où il est traité I. De L’Usage de la Comédie.