Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...amusing comedy in prose, and "L'Anglais Tel Qu'on le Parle," a modern farce by Tristan Bernard. With the former will be given a ballet for which the songs and music were written by Lulli. This music has not been heard since the ballet was danced before Louis XIV at the first presentation in 1665; and it is only through the kindness of M. Julien Tiersot, the librarian of the Conservatoire de Musique at Paris, who has furnished a copy of the original manuscript, now in the Paris archives, that is possible to reproduce the exact musical environment...
...Conservatory of Music at Paris, who is giving a series of lectures at the Alliance Francais in Boston, has brought to the Cercle Francais from the Paris archives, the original ballet music of Moliere's play, which was written by Lulli for the first presentation before Louis XIV...
...play chosen by the Cercle Francais for presentation next year is "L'Amour Medecin," an amusing three act comedy in prose, with a lively ballet at the end of each act. It was written by Moliere in 1665 and acted by his troupe within five days after Louis XIV ordered it written. It is called by the author "un petit impromptu," but is delightful in its variety and dash. Unlike many classics, it depends for success largely on the acting. The fifteen parts are short and brisk, and seven of them are very comic, especially those of the doctors...
...important political events leading up to the death of Louis XV, the moral deterioration of the court during that reign, and the complications responsible for the growing aversion to the innocent and once popular Marie Antoinette. The comparatively simple court life enforced during the last days of Louis XIV, was followed, said Professor Sumichrast, by a natural reaction. During the period of social pomposity and court revelries in the following reign, the administration was wrested from the dissipated debauchee, Louis XV, passing first into the hands of the ministers, and then into those of the mistresses of the king...
...Louis XIV gave a large number of entertainments of every description. Plays and ballets were numerous, and in his younger days he often took part in them himself. In 1664, 1668, and 1674 entertainments were given which surpassed in magnificence anything that had been witnessed in Europe. In one case there were ten days of continuous gaiety of every description...