THEATRE AT PARIS. 



Thefe ftrokes are in the department of french nature : 

 we come now to a fcene full of pathos. 



The marquis brings the three young men to an ex- 

 planation concerning their regard towards the damfel : 

 it would be impoffible, it would be unnatural, that fhe 

 Ihould have" an equal love for all the three. They ap- 

 peal to hei% and fhe is grieved ; fhe Harts and trembles 

 when the painter falls on his knee to her, and they aik 

 whether Die loves him as well as the reft. He cannot 

 let go her hand, and fhe cannot take it from him. He 

 keeps her, and the others relinquifh their claims in 

 favour of him. The marquis adopts them for his chil- 

 dren. 



This fcene was acted in a very fuperior ftyle, and 

 produced a great and univerfal efFedr.. 



The fecond piece, Sargines, was an heroical operetta, 

 deftitute of invention, but accompanied with very mel- 

 ting and limple mulic, and with a great number of 

 changes in the fcenery. It was the twentieth night of 

 its reprefentation ; which run the piece ieemed to owe, 

 not to the food it procured for the mind, but to the 

 pleafure it afforded to the eyes, and other favourable 

 circumftance?. Thefe are,, that Philip Auguftus ap- 

 pears in it ; that this king fays : Not for myfelf, but 

 for my people, I venture my life ! that he adds : This 

 is the moment that is to make us either henceforth free 

 or flaves for ever ! that, after having fpoke a long 

 time with great fire, he all at once defcries a beautiful 

 damfel, goes up to her, and fays : Pardonnez moi, 

 madam e ! and then, turning away from her, exclaims : 

 Comme elle eft charmante ! and that this damfel is the 

 goddefs of the parterre, the Dugazon. 



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