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| '''''The Fallen ]''''', usually referred to as '''The Fallen Madonna with the Big ]'''<ref name="WT" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6591777.stm |title=BBC NEWS | England | Oxfordshire | Fallen Madonna to go to new buyer |publisher=news.bbc.co.uk |accessdate=17 April 2010 | date=25 April 2007}}</ref><ref name="Sun">{{cite news |url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article192597.ece |title=TV Fallen Madonna found | The Sun |News |publisher=www.thesun.co.uk |accessdate=17 April 2010 |location=London |first=John |last=Coles |date=24 May 2007}}</ref> by the fictional painter Van Klomp ("Klomp" is ] for ]) was a portrait of a bare breasted woman which provided a recurring ] of the long-running ] ] series '']'' (1982–92), written by ] and ]. The first episode of the ] of '''Allo 'Allo!'' (1984) was entitled ''The Fallen Madonna''.<ref>Broadcast 14 September 1984</ref> In an earlier pilot the painting was referred to as the "reclining" Madonna. | |||
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| ==Recurring theme in '' 'Allo 'Allo!''== | |||
| '''Allo 'Allo!'' was set in the fictional French town of Nouvion during the German occupation of the ]. Its focus was a café in the town square run by ] (played by ]). There were sustained attempts by the occupiers to appropriate the ''Fallen Madonna'', a local treasure, to provide a "]" after the war. Among those who coveted it were the local German commandant ] (]) and the '']'' ] himself on whose behalf ] (]) of the '']'' was instructed to secure it (but, of course, also wanted it for himself). | |||
| The painting was seen and hidden in various guises; it was often secreted, with suggestive possibilities, in a long '']'' sausage. Forgeries were also in evidence.<ref name="BBC" /> | |||
| ==Forgeries and destructions== | |||
| An incredible number of forgeries of the Fallen Madonna were made, mostly by ] and ], which were naturally hidden in ] sausages in René's kitchen. The forgeries were subsequently destroyed in various ways (burned, blown up, minced, etc.). | |||
| ==Lord Bath== | |||
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| Following his assistance with an event connected with the programme, the BBC presented the ] with a specially commissioned copy of the ''Fallen Madonna'' which was hung alongside ]s in Bath's ancestral home, ], although her boobies have been reported to be significantly smaller than those of "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" by Van Klomp.<ref name="Sun" /><ref name="WT">], December 16 2005, ''''. Retrieved April 7 2008.</ref><ref name="BBC">''The Return of 'Allo 'Allo!'' (]), 28 April 2007</ref> | |||
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