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Updated: May 12, 2025
And great was the astonishment of my little court when they saw their idol come back from London round and rosy. I remained several days in Paris; then I set out for Brussels, where I was to play Adrienne Lecouvreur and Froufrou. The Belgian public by which I mean the Brussels public is the one most like our own. In Belgium I never feel that I am in a strange country.
From the bottom of my heart I also thanked all my detractors and slanderers, as it was through them that I had had the pleasure of fighting, with the certainty of conquering. The victory was all the more enjoyable as I had not dared to hope for it. I gave twenty-seven performances in New York. The plays were Adrienne Lecouvreur, Froufrou, Hernani, La Dame aux Camelias, Le Sphinx, and L'Etrangere.
Jarrett was wild with rage and I was wild with joy. He knew my horror of reporters, and he had introduced this one in an underhand way, hoping to get a good advertisement out of it. The journalist imagined that we were having a dress rehearsal of Froufrou, and we were merely rehearsing Alexandre Dumas's Princesse Georges for the sake of refreshing our memory.
Believe me, sign, and it is not we who will benefit by it, but you!" "I thank you," I answered, "but I prefer to choose my hospital myself on my return. And now you can go and leave me in peace." I fancy I said, "Get out!" That evening he was present at a performance of Froufrou; he came to my dressing-room and said: "You had better sign, believe me! And come back to commence with Froufrou!
"Yes, I'll go this very afternoon," said Whitney more loudly, turning his face toward the door through which came a faint feminine rustling the froufrou of the finest, softest silk and finest, softest linen.
Indeed, nowhere can one find more kindly portraits of the kindly player-folk than in the writings of this half-author of "Froufrou"; it is as though the successful dramatist felt ever grateful towards the partners of his toil, the companions of his struggles.
What a fine scene is that at the end of the third act, in which Froufrou has worked herself almost to a frenzy, and, hopeless in her jealousy, gives up all to her sister and rushes from the house to the lover she scarcely cares for! And how admirably does all that has gone before lead up to it! These first three acts are a wonder of constructive art.
I stretch myself upon the white mats; Chrysantheme, always eagerly attentive, brings me my pillow of serpent's-skin; and the smiling mousmes, with the interrupted rhythm of a while ago still running in their heads, move around me with measured steps. Their immaculate socks with the separate great toes make no noise; nothing is heard, as they glide by, but a 'froufrou' of silken stuffs.
I therefore had the best lunch I could get prepared, and my servants carried it to my company, the members of which showed themselves very grateful. The performance only began at three, and finished at half-past six o'clock; we started again at eight with Froufrou.
But it is inconceivable that M. Halévy alone could have attained so high an elevation or have gained so full a comic force. Perhaps, however, M. Halévy deserves credit for the better technical construction of the later plays: merely in their mechanism the first three acts of Froufrou are marvellously skilful.
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