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In such a scene the audience of three servants awaited the performance of the polite comedy by the farceur and farceuse, who would pretend to leave their personal tragedies in the wings.

Tammy Grimes's Cyrenne is a perkily perfect farceuse, a bedroom imp continually assuming antic positions with dry-witted composure.

Hers is a delightful twining of farceuse and comedienne: she can give a drawing-room inflection to a loony-bin situation, or turn daffy or profane in the midst of playing a grande dame.

"As for you, mademoiselle," said I, "you are a farceuse."

‘As for you, mademoiselle,’ said I, ‘you are a farceuse.’