The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) (1957)
“Should you choose to approach it from the rue de Clichy, you would come to a pair of wrought iron gates: but if you were to come by way of the rue d’Amsterdam, you would reach another entrance, open day and night, and giving access, first to a block of tenements, and then to the courtyard proper, an oblong court containing a row of small private dwellings secretively disposed beneath the flat towering walls of the main structure. Clearly these little houses must be the abode of artists. The win...dows are blind, covered with photographers’ drapes, but it is comparatively easy to guess what they conceal: rooms chock-a-block with weapons and lengths of brocade, with canvases depicting basketfuls of cats, or the families of Bolivian diplomats. Here dwells the Master, illustrious, unacknowledged, well-nigh prostrated by the weight of his public honors and commissions, with all this dumb provincial stronghold to seal him from disturbance.
Twice a day, however, at half-past ten in the morning and four o’clock in the afternoon, the silence is shattered by a sound of tumult.MoreLess
Twice a day, however, at half-past ten in the morning and four o’clock in the afternoon, the silence is shattered by a sound of tumult.MoreLess
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