Name: The Comedy at the Court Pompadour Marie-Antoinette - Adolphe Jullien With Sending
Brand: Librairie L'Ostal Arverne
Price: 300.0 EUR
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Reference work on the History of Theater under the Ancien Régime in the 18th century

With Author's Submission

Comedy at Court

The royal society theaters during the last century.

What journalist Jean-Jacques Weiss said:

“A certain number of works on the theater have appeared, which deserve, to varying degrees and in various ways, the attention of the public . at court , volume all together of knowledge and luxury"

" The object of the work is to inform us in detail of the history of the company troops which the Duchess of Maine successively formed to Sceaux, Glatigny and Anet, Madame de Pompadour for Versailles and for Bellevue, Marie-Antoinette for Trianon.

M. Jullien gives the state of the personnel of each troupe, the formal description of the scenes in which it played, the details of the performances, and, for Madame de Pompadour, the details of the sums which each theatrical season cost.

It collects all that we could know of the talent of the artists, and especially of the three main artists, the Duchess of Maine, the Marquise de Pompadour and Queen Marie-Antoinette. All mixed with anecdotes, almost always carefully controlled, which do not go beyond the limits of the chosen subject and which are topical for the depiction of court life at Versailles"

And Emile Zola is full of praise for the knowledge of Adolphe Jullien

when he exposed in 1881 his reflection on naturalism in the theater.

Editions Librairie de Firmin-Didot

sd circa1885

With autograph from the author to Louis Joly

(no doubt editor at Universal Monitor

where Adolphe Jullien collaborated)

Size 23*28cm, 321p

Embellished with 26 superb engravings

Lithographs, Woodcuts and Etching

including Superb Frontispiece in Chromolithography

Superb Binding In Full Sorrow