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The Comedy at the Court Pompadour Marie-Antoinette - Adolphe Jullien With Sending

Name: The Comedy at the Court Pompadour Marie-Antoinette - Adolphe Jullien With Sending
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Reference work on the History of Theatre under the Ancien Régime in the 18th century

With Inscription from the Author

La Comédie à la Cour

(Comedy at Court)

The royal amateur theatre troupes of the last century.

What the journalist Jean-Jacques Weiss said about it:

"A certain number of works on the theatre have appeared, which deserve, to varying degrees and in various ways, the attention of the public. We have had, from Firmin Didot, the beautiful volume by M. Adolphe Jullien, la Comédie à la cour, a volume both learned and luxurious"

"The object of the work is to make known to us in detail the history of the amateur troupes successively formed by the Duchess of Maine for Sceaux, Glatigny and Anet, Madame de Pompadour for Versailles and Bellevue, and Marie-Antoinette for Trianon.

M. Jullien provides the list of personnel for each troupe, a formal description of the stages where they performed, the details of the productions, and, for Madame de Pompadour, the details of the sums that each theatrical season cost.

He gathers everything that could be known about 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 of this is interspersed with anecdotes, almost always carefully verified, which do not go beyond the bounds of the chosen subject and which are pertinent to the depiction of court life at Versailles"

And Émile Zola is unstinting in his praise for Adolphe Jullien's knowledge

when he sets out his reflections on naturalism in the theatre in 1881.

Librairie de Firmin-Didot Editions

n.d. circa 1885

With Autograph Inscription from the author to Louis Joly

(undoubtedly the editor-in-chief of the Moniteur Universel

where Adolphe Jullien collaborated)

Format 23*28cm, 321p

Embellished with 26 superb engravings

Lithographs, wood engravings, and etching

including a superb frontispiece in chromolithography

Superb full shagreen binding