Madwoman of Chaillot

The Madwoman of Chaillot is a 1943 play by Jean Giraudoux, first performed in 1945, in which a benignly eccentric madwoman and her outcast friends resist the corrupt corporate executives who plan to dig up Paris to access the oil beneath its streets. The play is set in the Café "chez Francis" in the Place de l'Alma, Paris, and features a cast of eccentric characters who put the "wreckers of the world's joy" on trial and condemn them to banishment or death. The play has been revived frequently in France and has been translated into English, with a film adaptation starring Katharine Hepburn released in 1969.learn more on wikipedia