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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>DVD Review <font size="4"><br><i>Murderous Maids</i></font> <br>by David Gurevich</font> <p>It is my guess that had it not been for Jean-Paul Sartre, that indefatigable plotter and promoter of himself and the like-minded, the world would live in sweet ignorance of the Papin Sisters. But it was Sartre who pushed Jean Genet, one of the many <i>enfants terribles</i> that the French culture has foisted upon the world, and Genet wrote <i>The Maids</i>, a play remotely based on the Papin murder case, and a seminal work in the canon of the Theater of the Absurd. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>