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Updated: July 14, 2025
The Bouffons acquired for Italian music very warm partisans. All Paris was divided into two parties, the violence of which was greater than if an affair of state or religion had been in question.
The Bouffons acquired for Italian music very warm partisans. All Paris was divided into two parties, the violence of which was greater than if an affair of state or religion had been in question.
The stiff and stilted works of Sully and Rameau had thus far ruled the French stage without any competition, except from the Italian operettas performed by the company of Les Bouffons, and the new school of French operatic comedy developed into form by the lively genius of Grétry.
The comparison of these two kinds of music, heard the same evening in the same theatre, opened the ears of the French; nobody could endure their languid music after the marked and lively accents of Italian composition; and the moment the Bouffons had done, everybody went away. The managers were obliged to change the order of representation, and let the performance of the Bouffons be the last.
Cherubini, too, became director of the Italian opera troupe, "Les Bouffons," organized under the patronage of Léonard, the Queen's performer, and exercised his taste for composition by interpolating airs of his own into the works of the Italian composers, which were then interesting the French public as against the operas of Rameau.
"We are going to the Bouffons, are we not?" "I cannot go," he said, with his fingers on the door handle. Mme. de Beauseant rose and beckoned to him to return.
The comparison of these two kinds of music, heard the same evening in the same theatre, opened the ears of the French; nobody could endure their languid music after the marked and lively accents of Italian composition; and the moment the Bouffons had done, everybody went away. The managers were obliged to change the order of representation, and let the performance of the Bouffons be the last.
Did not my mother die of a lung complaint?" "Aha, Raphael! what fun you will have! What will you give me?" asked Aquilina. "Here's to the death of his uncle, Major O'Flaharty! There is a man for you." "He will be a peer of France." "Pooh! what is a peer of France since July?" said the amateur critic. "Are you going to take a box at the Bouffons?"
"All is for the best," cried Paul, at the summit of happiness. "So I shall see Paris!" cried Natalie, in a tone that would justly have alarmed de Marsay. "If we decide upon this plan," said Paul, "I'll write to de Marsay and get him to take a box for me at the Bouffons and also at the Italian opera." "You are very kind; I should never have dared to ask for it," said Natalie.
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