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Former French embassy employee Bernard Boursicot, 41, left and Shi Pei Pu, 47, a singer in Chinese traditional opera face the judge as their trial began in Paris, May 5, 1986.

At 83, the embassy worker at the center of the ‘M. Butterfly’ story is still an enigma

September 21, 2017Arts

The director of a new Baltimore production of “M. Butterfly” got to meet the real French embassy worker at the heart of the story. And he came away with even more questions.

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