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Updated: May 31, 2025
"This was the state of affairs when, an hour after her Majesty the Empress's arrival, Madame, the Duchess of Montebello, who accompanied her as lady of honor, sent M. Cretu, her cousin at whose house she was to visit, to seek me.
Well, I cannot do it, because I never shall call my birds otherwise than Cretu and Ramonette; it would seem to me that I sacrificed them, that I forgot my kind adopted parents-wouldn't it, M. Rudolph?" "You are right-a thousand times right. Germain did not make fun of these names?"
"He had, eh?" "Certainly; M. Girandeau and M. Cabrion M. Cabrion, above all were forever making jokes on the names of my birds. 'To call a canary Papa Cretu, did you ever? M. Cabrion never finished, and then he would laugh such laughs. "What a courageous resolution!" "It cost me a good deal, M. Rudolph I looked so eagerly for my Sunday excursions.
"This was the state of affairs when, an hour after her Majesty the Empress's arrival, Madame, the Duchess of Montebello, who accompanied her as lady of honor, sent M. Cretu, her cousin at whose house she was to visit, to seek me.
Let me next introduce the female performers. First female Singers and Parts of Lovers. Mesdames ST. AUBIN, SCIO, LESAGE, CRETU, PHILIS the elder, GAVAUDAN, and PINGENET. Madame ST. AUBIN. She is a capital actress, though chiefly in the parts of young girls; yet she is the main pillar of the Opera Comique.
At last she in a measure regained her self-control and exclaimed in stifled tones through her sobs, Mon Dieu, mon Dieu! how he is changed! I made a sign to M. Cretu that it was time to retire; but we could drag the duchess away only by promising her to bring her back next day, a promise which could not be kept.
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