Théâtre-Français
Americannoun
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We laughed, we moralized and it was decided that Beaumarchais should carry his work to the Théâtre-Français.”
From Project Gutenberg
Although the fastidious French taste, apart from all the enmity aroused by the many-sided success of its author, found much to criticise in the production, Eugénie, or la Vertu malheureuse, the piece retains its place upon the repertoire of the Théâtre-Français and is still occasionally given.
From Project Gutenberg
We congratulated him, we knew his piece, we assured him the comedians of the Théâtre-Français would be more sensible, that he would only lose the couplets, and that the Barbier de Séville would have more success at the theater of Molière than at the Harlequin.
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Made over into a drama, it had soon after been accepted by the Théâtre-Français.
From Project Gutenberg
In explaining the composition of the proverb he says further, “It has not been sufficient for Beaumarchais to restore to the Théâtre-Français some of the vivid gaiety of the olden time,—he 279wished for more, he desired not only that the people be made to laugh immoderately, but that one should sing in the theater of Messieurs les comédiens du roi.”
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