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The first act introduces the main character, René Gallimard, a civil servant attached to the French embassy in China. In a prison, Gallimard is serving a sentence for treason. Through a series of flashbacks and imagined conversations, Gallimard tells an audience his story about a woman that he loved and lost.
Rene Gallimard (died 1986) was a French civil servant who, in 1986, was charged with espionage after a 26-year-long affair with Chinese Beijing Opera singer Song Liling (a cross-dressing man, unbeknownst to Gallimard) led to Gallimard passing on classified information to Song, who then sent it...
René Gallimard is the protagonist of David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly, based on a true story of a French diplomat who falls in love with a Chinese opera singer. Gallimard is a self-centered, insecure, and delusional man who creates a fantasy of his lover as a submissive and faithful Butterfly.
Overview... an awkward, opera-loving French diplomat. He has recently come to China, and he is just as bewildered by the culture as he is enamored with it. Or, to be more exact, enamored with one specific part of it: Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese actress who gives Gallimard a much-needed boost to his confidence.
Rene Gallimard is a former French diplomat who falls in love with Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer who is actually a man. He is a victim of his own orientalist and imperialist prejudices, and his affair ends in betrayal and humiliation.
M. Butterfly is a novel by David Henry Hwang in which French diplomat Rene Gallimard conducts an affair with a Chinese woman named Song Liling. Song is later revealed to be both a man and a ...
Rene Gallimard. Gallimard is a former French diplomat who has been imprisoned for treason. His crime was passing classified documents to the Chinese, through his lover, Song. Gallimard is an unimpressive man, who by his own admission is not “witty or clever.” At high school, he was voted “least likely to be invited to a party.”
