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Before the revolution, it bore the name of Theatre des Petits Comediens du Comte de Beaujolais, and was famous for the novelty of the spectacle here given. Young girls and boys represented little comedies and comic operas in the following manner. Some gesticulated on the stage; while others, placed in the side-scenes, spoke or sang their parts without being seen.
La Platière, the paternal inheritance of M. Roland, was an estate situated at the base of the mountains of Beaujolais, in the valley of the Saône. It is a region solitary and wild, with rivulets, meandering down from the mountains, fringed with willows and poplars, and threading their way through narrow, yet smooth and fertile meadows, luxuriant with vineyards.
"Soon we shall all be corrupt," croaked the old man. "France but what can you expect of a nation that exiles kings!" "Ah, Louis Philippe! My father once entertained him here in New Orleans," said Mauville. "Indeed?" remarked the marquis with interest. "It was when he visited the city in 1798 with his brothers, the Duke of Montpensier and the Count of Beaujolais.
This celebrated establishment was situated near the Beaujolais Gallery of the Palais-Royal, close to the narrow street leading to the Rue Vivienne, and it had been the rendezvous of epicures, either residents of Paris or birds of passage, since the day it was opened.
"Henri," he turned to the young Beaujolais, "I wish you had shared my masque I have been so gay!" The surface of his tone was merry, but there was an undercurrent, weary sad, to speak of what was the mood, not the manner. He made the effect of addressing every one present, but he looked steadily at Lady Mary.
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