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Updated: June 26, 2025
Duquesnel had the happy idea of putting Athalie on again, with Mendelssohn's choruses. Beauvallet, who had been odious as a professor, was charming as a comrade. By special permission from the Ministry he was to play Joad. The role of Zacharie was assigned to me. Some of the Conservatoire pupils were to take the spoken choruses, and the female pupils who studied singing undertook the musical part.
"Good!" said Duquesnel, "I will settle it like that. What about the scenery, though?" he muttered meditatively, biting his nails, which were then his favourite meal when disturbed in his mind. I had already thought that out, so I offered to drive him home, and on the way I put my plan before him.
I chose a dress the underskirt of which was of canary yellow, the dress being of black silk with the skirt scalloped round, and a straw conical-shaped hat trimmed with corn, and black ribbon velvet under the chin. It must have been delightfully mad looking. Arrayed in this style, feeling very joyful and full of confidence, I went to call on Felix Duquesnel.
Nothing pleases me like having to master a public, perhaps hostile, who have read and heard all that the Press has said against me. But I am sorry that I cannot play, not only in Paris but in all France, my two big successes, Adrienne and Froufrou." "As to that, you can count on me!" exclaimed Felix Duquesnel.
You ought to have come back when I called you. Is it true, as Paul Meurice tells us, that you went straight to the Theatre Francais?" "Here, read for yourself," I said, handing him my engagement with the Comedie. Duquesnel took the paper and read it. "Will you let me show it to Chilly?" he asked. "Show it him, certainly," I replied.
The defence, however, was being organised, and I decided to use my strength and intelligence in tending the wounded. The question was, where could we instal an ambulance? The Odeon Theatre had closed its doors, but I moved heaven and earth to get permission to organise an ambulance in that theatre, and, thanks to Emile de Girardin and Duquesnel, my wish was gratified.
Your articles in le Temps, which have had a great success, are widely read and who knows? You would perhaps do France a great service? Aisse keeps me very busy, or rather provokes me. I have not seen Chilly, I have had to do with Duquesnel. They are depriving me definitely of the senior Berton and proposing his son. He is very nice, but he is not at all the type conceived by the author.
"Come to the Odeon at two o'clock," said Duquesnel, by way of leave-taking, "and I will introduce you to my partner. He came a few steps down the staircase with me, and stayed there leaning over the balustrade to wish me good-bye. At two o'clock precisely I was at the Odeon, and had to wait an hour.
"Monday," she replied. I then installed Madame Guerard at my desk, and asked her to reply that I would go there the following day at three o'clock. I was earning very little at that time at the Odeon. I was living on what my father had left me that is, on the transaction made by the Havre notary and not much remained. I therefore went to see Duquesnel and showed him the letter.
Afterwards, though, I puzzled my head to find out what the wretched woman could have meant. And all I could find was that the two men who support me, the one dark and the other fair, are our two managers, Chilly and Duquesnel. And now you tell me that Chilly " She stopped short, breathless with her story, and again seized with terror.
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