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Doctor Alexandre Manette is a character in Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities. He is Lucie's father, a brilliant physician, and spent eighteen years "in secret" as a prisoner in the Bastille prior to the French Revolution. He is imprisoned because in the course of his medical practice he learns of abusive actions by two members of the aristocratic Evrémonde family. While realizing the power at court of nobles such as the Evrémondes, Manette reports them to a minister of the royal government. He is seized from his young family and imprisoned under a lettre de cachet.

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Alexandre Manette

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Doctor Alexandre Manette is a character in Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities. He is Lucie's father, a brilliant physician, and spent eighteen...

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Manette

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author, born in Lapeer, Michigan Alexandre Manette, character in Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities Lucie Manette, character in Charles Dickens'...

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Lucie Manette

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Lucie Manette is a character in Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities. Lucie is the daughter of Dr. Alexandre Manette. She is wise beyond her...

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A Tale of Two Cities

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Jerry back with the cryptic response "Recalled to Life", referring to Alexandre Manette, a French physician who has been released from the Bastille after...

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Lucie to Dover when Lucie goes to France to retrieve her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette, after his release from the Bastille, but her stout English patriotism...

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Ernest Defarge

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inside the wine shop. When the story starts, Defarge is harboring Dr. Alexandre Manette, his old employer, who has just been released from eighteen years...

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Jerry Cruncher

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Jerry Cruncher accompanies Jarvis Lorry and Lucie Manette to Paris to retrieve Dr. Alexandre Manette. Back in England, he helps Sydney Carton "get something"...

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List of Dickensian characters

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know she lives. Manette, Dr Alexandre is the father of Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities, and a former prisoner in the Bastille. Manette, Lucie is the...

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Jarvis Lorry

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speaking machine. He nevertheless shows an awkward sympathy towards Dr. Alexandre Manette and his daughter Lucie. While serving in Tellson's Paris office, Lorry...

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Lettres de cachet

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her to be returned to him so he can force her into marriage. Doctor Alexandre Manette, in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, was thrown into the Bastille prison...

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Soho

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several of his works; in A Tale of Two Cities, Lucie Manette and her father Dr. Alexandre Manette live on Soho Square, while Golden Square is mentioned...

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The Mercury Theatre on the Air

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by Charles Dickens Cast: Orson Welles (Dr. Alexandre Manette, Sydney Carton), Mary Taylor (Lucie Manette), Eustace Wyatt (Clerk), Edgar Barrier (Charles...

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Josef Swickard

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Orson Welles radio credits

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by Charles Dickens. Cast: Orson Welles (Dr. Alexandre Manette, Sydney Carton), Mary Taylor (Lucie Manette), Eustace Wyatt (Clerk), Edgar Barrier (Charles...

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Emmanuel Macron

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Bagnères-de-Bigorre to visit his grandmother Germaine, whom he called "Manette". Macron associates his enjoyment of reading and his leftward political...

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Claude Jade

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alongside Jacques Brel. As Manette she refuses Brel's advances until he produces a marriage contract. At the End Manette realizes she prefers happiness...

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A remastering of "Sky Diving". 152b 9b "Oggy at Top Speed" "À fond les manettes" Jean-Louis Capron Jean-François Galataud Patrick Ducruet June 30, 2018 (2018-06-30)...

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Peter Cushing

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Man in the Iron Mask (1939), the James Whale-directed adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas tale based on the French legend of a prisoner during the reign of...

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Tina Kover

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