Children of Paradise [SEP] narrative location
to the actors [...] and the audiences too, the good-natured, working-class audience." In British English, "Les Enfants du Paradis" translates better in context as "The Children of the Gods" than as "The Children of Paradise".
Story.
Story Précis.
"Children of Paradise" is set in the theatrical world of Paris during the July Monarchy (1830–48), centred on the area around the Funambules theatre, situated on the Boulevard du Temple – pejoratively referred to
of the forest.) Policeman Bluejay escorts the children to a safer location. Soon he takes them to the Paradise of Birds, where the contentions and violence of the forest never penetrate. The children are given a tour of its splendors, and meet the King Bird of Paradise. In the "suburbs" of Paradise, the child-larks are introduced to the community of bees, and meet the Queen Bee; and they witness a spectacular flight of butterflies.
Beyond Paradise, in "the coarse, outer world