Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses ; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is often criticized throughout the play for his drinking and tardiness.

1969 saw the emergence of the Mouvement Militant Mauricien led by Paul Bérenger.

For the remaining time of the elected government the Prime Minister ’ s post was filled by Paul Bérenger.

As he refused to retract and was threatened with punishment by the inquisitor, Bérenger appealed to the pope.

The matter soon developed into a general controversy between the Dominicans and Franciscans ; among the latter, Relaxati and Zelanti alike supported Bérenger on the basis of the Bull of Nicholas III, " Exiit qui seminat " which had defined the poverty of the Franciscans, both individually and collectively, as equivalent to that of the Apostles, and had therefore transferred to the Roman Church all their holdings in land and houses, as had already been enacted by Innocent IV ( 14 November., 1245 ).

He also wrote Vie du cardinal Ximénès ( Life of Cardinal Ximénès, Paris, 1635 ), which was again published with a notice of the author by E. Baudier ( Paris, 1851 ), and a romance entitled Histoire de l ' incomparable administration de Romieu, grand ministre d ' état de Raymond Bérenger, comte de Provence ( History of the incomparable administration Romieu, great minister of the condition of Raymond Bérenger, Count of Provence, Paris, 1635 ).

François Bérenger Saunière ( 11 April 1852 – 22 January 1917 ) was a Roman Catholic priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 until he was transferred to another village in 1909 by his bishop, a nomination he declined and subsequently resigned.

François Bérenger Saunière died on 22 January 1917, his suspension lifted at the moment of death ( in articulo mortis ) by Abbé Jean Rivière, who performed the Last Rites.

* The French Television Channel France 3 made a 6-part miniseries L ' Or du diable in 1989 about Bérenger Saunière directed by Jean-Louis Fournier, casting Jean-François Balmer as the priest, based on the novel of the same name by Jean Michel Thibaux published in 1987.

* Bérenger Saunière, Mon enseignement à Antugnac, 1890 ( edited by Abbé Bruno de Monts ; Éditions Bélisane, 1984 ).

i .; and Lettres inédites ( 1850 ), with a notice by Raymond, marquis de Bérenger.

In 1946, Marie Dénarnaud bequeathed to Noël Corbu by Holographic will the former estate of Abbé Bérenger Saunière, that he constructed in her name between 1899-1905.

Noël Corbu's daughter Claire Corbu with her husband Antoine Captier in 1985 published L ' Héritage de l ’ Abbé Saunière that reproduced some of the important archive documents relating to Bérenger Saunière, and in May 1989 opened the Saunière Museum in the village of Rennes-le-Château, being part of the Association Terre de Rhedae, supported by the local Municipal council.

In 2000 he was defeated by two political leaders, Paul Bérenger and Anerood Jugnauth, who joined hands to oust him out power, but was still elected as first representative of his constituency in National Assembly.

Originally a Pierre Plantard manuscript that failed to find a publisher, and extensively rewritten by Gérard de Sède, L ' Or de Rennes presented as fact various claims about Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-le-Château that were the authors ' inventions, in order to embellish a story about the discovery of a hidden secret.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

He sent for the children and, in the investigation that followed, it was discovered that one of the boys ( none other than Athanasius ) had acted the part of the bishop and in that character had actually baptized several of his companions in the course of their play.

Banquo is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth.

* A character in the play Tom and Clem, by Stephen Churchett.

Yale, together with Rutgers, Princeton and Columbia met on October 20, 1873 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to agree a set of rules and regulations that would allow them play a form of football that was essentially Association football ( today often called " soccer " in the US ) in character.

The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

A player can choose to play as one of eight different default character models ( four for each side, although Counter-Strike: Condition Zero added two extra models, bringing the total to ten ).

Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

D & D departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play instead of a military formation.

During the course of play, each player directs the actions of his or her character and its interactions with the other characters in the game.

The only items required to play the game are the rulebooks, a character sheet for each player and a number of polyhedral dice.

As play progressed, Arneson added such innovations as character classes, experience points, level advancement, armor class, and others.

In the play Oedipus Rex by Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, the title character discovers the truth about his origins after questioning various witnesses.

In the same play the character Hermia is told by the Duke Theseus that she must either wed the character Demetrius " Or on Diana's alter to protest for aye austerity and single life ".

Thomas appeared in the play Comus for Third Programme, the day after the network launched, and his rich, sonorous voice led to character parts, including the lead in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon and Satan in an adaptation of Paradise Lost.

Levy will play Mia, who will replace Ash as the main character of the film.

Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.

Her name is an anagram of Grundy ( from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough ).

He then passed on the gossip that Miss Martineau had been " as frisky lately the Rhinoceros .— Erasmus has been with her noon, morning, and night :— if her character was not as secure, as a mountain in the polar regions she certainly would loose it .— Lyell called there the other day & there was a beautiful rose on the table, & she coolly showed it to him & said “ Erasmus Darwin ” gave me that .— How fortunate it is, she is so very plain ; otherwise I should be frightened: She is a wonderful woman ".

He then passed on the gossip that Miss Martineau had been " as frisky lately the Rhinoceros .— Erasmus has been with her noon, morning, and night :— if her character was not as secure, as a mountain in the polar regions she certainly would loose it .— Lyell called there the other day & there was a beautiful rose on the table, & she coolly showed it to him & said “ Erasmus Darwin ” gave me that .— How fortunate it is, she is so very plain ; otherwise I should be frightened: She is a wonderful woman ".

He has been seduced by the marvels of the unconscious and has lost interest in studying the surfaces of character.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

The charges would be made in The Gazette by an anonymous correspondent, and Pike would be so busy trying to track down the illusive character assassin that he would forget about harassing Woodruff.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

Viola had been urged to attend, by telephone, and not knowing the host or the character of the party, she had gone.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

`` A Toast To The Bride '', sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and touching.

the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

The parentheses could not correspond to 9 and 0, however, because the place corresponding to 0 was taken by the space character.

Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.

* Austin Moon, fictional character in Austin & Ally, portrayed by Ross Lynch

* Austin Powers, fictional character in films, created and portrayed by Mike Myers

* Animal, nickname of a regular character in Takeshi's Castle, played by Brad Lesley

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

Synapomorphies ( a character that is shared by two or more groups through evolutionary development ) include the presence in the plants of oligosaccharide inulin, a nutrient storage molecule used instead of starch ; and unique stamen morphology.

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

" The character Snake says it was written by Abdul Alhazred and was said to be one of the books used in the creation of the Necronomicon.