CHASTENET – THE INTERIOR OF A REPUBLICAN HOUSEHOLD, comic opera in one act and in Vaudevilles (…) performed for the first time at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-comique National on rue Favart, on 15 Nivôse, year 2 of the Republic, Original Edition
CHASTENET – THE INTERIOR OF A REPUBLICAN HOUSEHOLD, comic opera in one act and in Vaudevilles (…) performed for the first time at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-comique National on rue Favart, on 15 Nivôse, year 2 of the Republic, Original Edition
CHASTENET – THE INTERIOR OF A REPUBLICAN HOUSEHOLD, comic opera in one act and in Vaudevilles (…) performed for the first time at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-comique National on rue Favart, on 15 Nivôse, year 2 of the Republic, Original Edition
CHASTENET – THE INTERIOR OF A REPUBLICAN HOUSEHOLD, comic opera in one act and in Vaudevilles (…) performed for the first time at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-comique National on rue Favart, on 15 Nivôse, year 2 of the Republic, Original Edition
CHASTENET – THE INTERIOR OF A REPUBLICAN HOUSEHOLD, comic opera in one act and in Vaudevilles (…) performed for the first time at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-comique National on rue Favart, on 15 Nivôse, year 2 of the Republic, Original Edition
    CHASTENET
    THE INTERIOR OF A REPUBLICAN HOUSEHOLD, a comic opera in one act and in Vaudevilles (…) performed for the first time at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-comique National on rue Favart, on 15 Nivôse, year 2 of the Republic, Original Edition
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    Year II of the Republic [1794]
    in-8, f. mobiles, (lightly faded), 36 p.
    A comic opera written by a prominent Freemason, presenting the fruits of children's education under a republican regime, diverting them from religious books to learn more fundamental truths: "France was a monarchical state / Each province had a parliament / Each also had its intendant / Holding tyrannical power from the prince. / The people, weary of this ancient form, / Which deprived them of their rights for so long, / Divided France into good departments / Which, well united, form the Republic." We also enjoy some amusing passages in which the pious maid (clearly the Republic has not abolished prejudices) is married off to the village priest… This comic opera was honored with a review in the "Conservateur décadaire des principes républicains et de la morale politique" (Paris, 1794, vol. 1, p. 251), a strictly republican journal that seems to find this lyrical production somewhat lukewarm.

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