Louis Gallet
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Born January 1, 1835
Died January 1, 1898 (63 years old)
Valence, France
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Jean Anouilh, Georges Feydeau, Michel de Ghelderode, Louis Gallet, Marvin Albert Carlson, Andrée Chedid, Edwin Wilson, Louis Aragon, McGraw-Hill, Robert Cohen, Francis de Croisset, Derek Mahon, Eugène Ionesco, Eugène Scribe, Henri Rousseau, Boris Vian, Paul Claudel, Jean-Paul Sartre, David Mamet, Henry de Montherlant, Alain René Le Sage, Yasmina Reza, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Edith Juliet (Rich) Isaacs, William Somerset Maugham, Richard Foulkes
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Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy, he is able to speak with her about eternity; surprisingly he succeeds in converting her to Christianity. Yet on their return to the desert he becomes fascinated with her former life. She enters a convent to repent of her sins. He cannot forget the pull of her famous beauty, and becomes confused about the values of life. Later, as she is dying and can only see heaven opening before her, he comes to her side and tells her that her faith is an illusion, and that he loves her.