Les fumeuses fatales. Antique the pre-Romanesque sites built during

the pre-Romanesque sites built during the Merovingian and Carolingian periods represent an important part of medieval architecture

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Les fumeuses fatales. Antique the pre-Romanesque sites built duringDenis Pouppeville's satirical drawings inspired Gilbert Lascault to create "a disenchanted fairy tale, a disordered legend, a disguised epic, a fable without morals or wonder." The Arthurian fairies Viviane and Morgane find themselves here as inseparable twin sisters, Les Funeuses Fatales, sharing their lovers and their insatiable desires, their taste for poetry and popular songs. By turns lascivious and bloodthirsty, the two sisters borrow all the