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(As critics have later pointed out, the movie also could be viewed as a thinly veiled allegory for the Nazis invading France while the director insisted it was not intended as such, the important thing is that the film managed to escape the censors.) While the production design was heavily influenced by Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry, a rather famous manuscript from the 1400s, the story itself was steeped deeply in fantasy, and Peyo watched it repeatedly. The envoys (semi-accidentally) start doing some good works, and the Devil needs to visit in person to fix things. It was in this environment we got Les visiteurs du soir (see picture above), a 1942 film by Marcel Carné, set in 1485, about two envoys sent to the mortal world to cause mischief and recruit for the Devil.
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