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Helena, the orphan daughter of a famous physician, is hopelessly in love with a young man at the court of the King of France. When word comes that the King is ill, she goes to Paris and wagers her life that she can cure him, in return for the hand of any man in the realm
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French
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[1957]
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The plot follows an aristocratic family during one of London's debutante seasons. It is a light-hearted, almost farcical, comedy which revolves around the mother's deep anxiety and attempts to avoid scandal after she confuses two men (both called David) and accidentally sets up her daughter with 'David Hoylake-Johnston' (who has a reputation as a philanderer) instead of 'David Bulloch' (who she believes to be the perfect match for her daughter)--Wikipedia...
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Love's Labours Lost - William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to forswear the company of women for three years of study and fasting, and their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of Aquitaine and her ladies. In...
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