£04 THEATRE AT PARIS. 



Supped in the evening at the palais royal, a la fran- 

 $aife, i. e. petit pain Topped in limonade, diluted with 

 water. 



The 20th, went to the Varietes amufantes. 



Three pieces were reprefented, two little ones and a 

 greater. The two little ones were played with extraor- 

 dinary fp'irit, and were good of their kind ;| but the 

 larger piece was excellent. 



La Joueufe, that was the name of it, is one of the 

 ferious moral family-pictures, like thofe lately fo much 

 in fain ion at London, and of whjch fort the french 

 have a great quantity. The author is M, Collin d'FIar- 

 leville, who fhil made himfelf talked of as a man of 

 ,talents by his Inconftant, and afterwards by his Op- 

 timise. 



The piece met with a decided, noily, furious ap^ 

 plaufe. Monvel, v/ho played the part of the hufhand 

 and father, is one of the moil capital performers the 

 Paris theatre has at prefent to bdaft of. He formerly 

 was at the Theatre Francois, from whence his colleagues 

 caballed him down, for making him the chief fupport- 

 qf the Varietes amufantes. He is already advanced in 

 years, but adls with all the vivacity and hre of a young 

 man. Among the aclrelTes there was not one that" 

 could be fet upon a par with him, though they play 

 well $og } and in many places would pafs for excellent 

 performers. 



I am now convinced, thai the french nation 'is really 

 in poiTeflion of a theatre the beft adapted to its genius. 

 Not a tingle word was loft of this day*:: reprefentation ; 

 the mot- iklic&te turns,, as well as the longer fentences 



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