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Paris, January 17, 1802. If we do not consider the Opera Buffa as a national theatre, then the next in rank, after the Grand French Opera and the Theatre Francais, is the This house, which is situated in the Rue Feydeau, near the Rue de la Loi, was opened for the first time in January 1791.
There was a time when it was difficult to find a man in the street who had not acted in Ici on Parle Français or played in Money or appeared in Our Boys, and nowadays it seems that though there has been some progress, the austere drama is still unpopular, and that when funds are sufficient artificial costume plays are in vogue.
They were already far on the sea before the Heros spread its sails. Leclerc's announcement of Toussaint's overthrow was as follows: "I intercepted letters which he had written to one Fontaine, who was his agent at Cap Francais. These afforded an unanswerable proof that he was engaged in a conspiracy, and that he was anxious to regain his former influence in the colony.
He then had a secretary, two lackeys, and a valet de chambre, and was frequently in conference with Arlington and the Spanish ambassador to the English Court. Colbert, the French ambassador in London, had written all this to the French Government, on April 25, before he heard of Marsilly's arrest. Bibl. Nat., Fonds. Francais, No. 10665.
His daughter afterwards married the grandson and representative of the celebrated Count Francais de Nantes, who filled various high offices in the State, and was grand officer of the Legion of Honor and Peer of France.
'You're not the first. All the women are crazy about him. He was the lover of Merac, the actress of the Francais. They say she could only play Phedre when he was in the stage-box. He always produced that effect upon her. Then he was the lover of the Marquise de la de la Per I can't remember the name. 'Is he in love with any one now? 'No; we thought he was going to marry Rose.
A second reading of Les Chatiments for another cannon will be given at the "Theatre Francais". November 11. Mlle. Periga called today to rehearse Pauline Roland, which she will read at the second reading of Les Chatiments, announced for to-morrow at the Porte Saint Martin. I took a carriage, dropped Mlle. Periga at her home, and then went to the rehearsal of to-morrow's reading at the theatre.
The old gentleman thought well of the young lady's talent, especially her comedy; in tragedy, said he, she imitates Mademoiselle Dumenil, of the Theatre Francais, and confounds the stage rhetorician with the actress. The next question was not so fortunate. "Did you ever see so great and true an actress upon the whole?" Mr.
Sir David was born in 1838, consequently he is now eighty-two years old. One of my brothers has still in his keeping a very large gold medal. One side of it bears the effigy of "Napoleon III., Empereur des Francais." The other side testifies that it is the "Premier Prix d'Avirons de la Mediterrannee, 1866."
I shall conclude this account of the tragedians belonging to the Theatre Francais, by observing that the revolution is said to have given a new turn to the mind and character of the French women; and the success which several actresses, at this day obtain in the dramatic career, in the line of tragedy, is quoted in support of this opinion.
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