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Arts: Death and the maidens First a memoir of Revolutionary Terror, then a novel, then a screenplay , and lastly an opera by Poulenc, The Carmelites bears the deep biographical imprints of all those involved in its creation.
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The Independent - London
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May 19, 1999
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The tourist office in Compiegne was terribly helpful. Yes, they
said, there is a little bit of the famous Carmelite convent still
standing, but of course it was torn down during the Revolution, and
the nuns taken to Paris and executed...
That much I knew. That's why I was there; it was an opera lover's
sentimental journey. So after a 10-minute walk down a pretty dreary
road (typically Northern French Municipal - one Revolution, two World
Wars, and a lot of "town planning") I arrived at the spot marked on
my tourist map. And there indeed was the tiny Place du Carmel, an
unmistakably 18th-century wall, a fairly recent chapel, a garage, a
stretch of sheltered housing... and no plaque. So I ...
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