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HAUTEROCHE, Noël Le Breton, Sieur de - Oeuvres.
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265
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HAUTEROCHE, Noël Le Breton, Sieur de - Oeuvres.
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
HAUTEROCHE, Noël Le Breton, Sieur de - Oeuvres. The Hague, A. Moetjens, 1693. Pet. in-12, title-front, (8) ff, 108 pp, 46 pp, 1 bl. f., 56 pp, (5)ff, 38 pp, 70 pp, 1 bl. f., 118 pp, 1 bl. f., 112 pp, garnet morocco pl. with Du Seuil-style gilt frames on covers, gilt tr.
"Jolie édition en caractères elzéviriens" (SOLEINNE II, 1429). Contains seven plays (with separate titles dated 1682): L'Amant qui ne flatte point (1669), Le Souper mal apprêté (1670), Crispin médecin (1670), Le Deuil (1672 impr. in 1680), Les Apparences trompeuses (1673), Crispin musicien (1674), Les Nobles de province (1678). Hauteroche (1630?-1707?) was the son of a bailiff who intended him for a legal career. He fled to Spain and joined a troupe of French actors. Around 1650, he was hired by the Troupe du Marais, which he left for the Troupe de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne. He retired in 1684 with a pension of 1000 livres and married the following year. He lost his sight two years later. A famous actor, he was even more successful as a playwright (Dictionnaire des Lettres Françaises, 491). His first play, L'Amant qui ne flatterte point, is a comedy inspired by Le Misanthrope. Le Souper mal apprêté is the story of a young man who finds himself unable to pay for the dinner to which he has invited his mistress and her friends. Hauteroche then published his most successful play: Crispin médecin, reminiscent of Le Médecin malgré lui and L'Amour médecin, was performed more than 800 times at the Comédie française between 1680 and 1835. In 1674, he wrote a new comedy with the same character. Music had become very popular in Paris since the establishment of the Opéra. Crispin musicien was the first play to make reference to the rival institution and was nicknamed the opera of the Hôtel de Bourgogne because Hauteroche played pieces of music between each act. In his other plays, Hauteroche again painted pleasant pictures of the customs of the provincial nobility and the bourgeoisie. (See LANCASTER, III, p. 770 ff, IV, 457)
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