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Updated: May 31, 2025
'Le Cid' and 'Le Mage' , two works produced at the Paris Opera, may be passed over as comparative failures, but 'Esclarmonde' marks an important stage in Massenet's career. The libretto is drawn from an old French romance.
Meanwhile, Lord Bracondale had gone on to sup at the Café de Paris, with Marion de Beauvoison and Esclarmonde de Chartres; and among the diamonds and pearls and scents and feathers he suddenly felt a burning disgust, and a longing to be out again in the moonlight alone with his thoughts. "Mais qu'as tu, mon vieux chou?" they said.
I heard " And she whispered low, so that Theodora only caught the name "Esclarmonde de Chartres" and their modulated mocking laughter. How they jarred upon her! How she felt she should hate London among all these people whose ways she did not know! She turned a little, and Josiah's vulgar familiar face seemed a relief to her, and her tender eyes melted in kindliness as she looked at him.
But she put it aside it was not her nature to think herself the object of passions. "I would be a very silly woman to flatter myself so," she said to herself, and then she went to sleep. Lord Bracondale stayed awake for hours, but he did not sup with Esclarmonde de Chartres or Marion de Beauvoison. And the Café de Paris and Maxims and the afterwards saw him no more.
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