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peruke
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peruke
bizarre collection of velveted antlers developed by male caribou and roe deer males castrated as adults. Called also wigged.


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s dollhouse facade of a set, peruked (by Gerald Altenburg) and adorned (in magnificently rich costumes by Catherine Zuber) to the absolute letter.
The peruked thinkers stand side by side, leaning on their eighteenth-century walking sticks, their faces set in ironic expressions as dialogue balloons issue from their heads, giving us the following exchange: Diderot: "I challenge the pious Euler to produce a mathematical proof of the existence of God.
Treachery rears its peruked head in the form of Nevers' cousin Gonzague (Luchini) who, next in line to inherit the Nevers fortune, looks to off the duke and his progeny.
 
 
 
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