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sed in France =/ as ^[.La Ker/\messe H\]eroiqu`=e,^` Carnival i.n Flanders is? ?#set during the_ long-ago war betwe+_en the Dutch and Spa@nish. A-% tiny vi]) llage /;i* n` [ Fland[(ers is invade=d @%!by Spanish troop (s. The=$:^ t=ownsfolk hav%e heard of Sp# %ani)[sh cruelti/?`es+ ;#in other towns, an`d de]cide;# t )o deflect the van=( :quishers by playin: g]) ]# dead. T[%#his isn't terribl[
y effective (you have %to take a_ bre^a`]th once [in+#) a_, whil` e)^!, s.o the!% wife of the )burg`omaster tries  ^to s_%often;+-^ up the[ invaders with :a lavish ca-rnival^-. So successful i:);+s %.t]his ve= nture t$^hat_= the Sp?aniards .;allow the -village. to esc)!ape \=being; de:,cimated, or even taxed. An award-winne!r many!)[ (/[t imes ov!\er, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germ) any; !,evidently, Goeb_%bels ; caught o`n that dir ec@/t]_\or Ja^cque`s Fey%(/der and sce^]\?nar+
is* :ts Bernard Zimmer a!nd Charles ]!$Spaak we /re/ drawin=g d;eliberate .=pa]ralle!ls b!etween the #` #)(Spanis!,- :h and the then-bur:+geoning*; N$)]azi^s.