Talk:L'Alouette (The Lark)
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Re STUB. I have always wondered why Wikipedia insists against all logic to use this word for something that could be expanded or come alive. Now suddenly it became clear to me: it is stub, as in "Anouilh stubbed his toe". In Anouilh's view, the play does NOT cover the trial of Jeanne, as the article has it; it covers the staging of a play about this trial. It is NOT Cauchon who halts the proceedings; Beaudricourt does. The fire is NOT extinguished. Jeanne does NOT get a reprieve. The actual end of the story is NOT left in question. It is Charles, and NOT Cauchon, who, for his own reasons, proclaims it a sort of victory for Jeanne. Sad to say, Anouilh is wrong about every single point mentioned in "Plot and spoilers".--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 08:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Re REASON. So what is the reason for all this confusion? Well, at first Anouilh seems to suggest that inner voices will always lead you to Rouen. Then, at the end of this play about a play, yet another play, the crowning at Reims, is staged, of which Anouilh has Charles say four times that it is la vraie fin de l'histoire de Jeanne, and that this end is joyous. This is the sick kind of humor that the French call "sarcasme". Wikipedia is right not to pay any attention to it. The actual end of the story is left in question, whatever Mr Anouilh has to say about it.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 08:37, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
