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Laughter in the Time of Cholera

Wednesday 10 November 2021 at 11:48

Political instability, popular unrest, and an impending pandemic? Welcome to France in the early 1830s. Vlad Solomon explores what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.

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