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...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...
...clock, and will be open to the public. After completing his lecture on "The Palace of the great King," which was begun last Friday, Professor Sumichrast will take up the history and origin of the French court, and the life of the court at Versailles under Louis XIV...
...lecturer began by describing the royal residences in Paris at the opening of the reign of Louis XIV, dwelling more particularly on the Louvre, then in a state of transition, and wholly insufficient for the needs of the king and his ever-growing court. He pointed out that the palace of Versailles, as it exists at the present day, is the outcome of successive transformations and additions, the first royal residence on the site having been the hunting-lodge erected by Louis XIII. This was added to by his son, who used it for a similar purpose...