vaudeville

vaudeville

“À ses moments perdus, Fernand écrivait, avec ses camarades de bureau, un tiers ou un sixième de vaudeville .” — "In his idle moments Fernand would write a scene or two of vaudeville with his colleagues from the office."

Uncertain. Possibly a corruption of voix de ville (“voice of the city”) or vallée de Vire (“valley of the (river) Vire”).