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120 - HAUTEROCHE, Noël Le Breton, Sieur de – Works.
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HAUTEROCHE, Noël Le Breton, Sieur de – Works. The Hague, A. Moetjens, 1693. Small 12mo, frontispiece, (8) folios, 108 pages, 46 pages, 1 blank folio, 56 pp., (5) folios, 38 pp., 70 pp., 1 blank folio, 118 pp., 1 blank folio, 112 pp., maroon morocco binding, gilt borders in the Du Seuil style on the covers, gilt lettering. “A lovely edition in Elzevirian type” (SOLEINNE II, 1429). Contains seven plays (with separate titles dated 1682): *L’Amant qui ne flatte point* (1669), *Le Souper mal apprêté* (1670), *Crispin, the Physician* (1670), *Mourning* (1672, printed in 1680), *Deceptive Appearances* (1673), *Crispin, the Musician* (1674), *The Provincial Nobility* (1678). Hauteroche (c. 1630–c. 1707) was the son of a bailiff who intended him for a career in law. He fled to Spain and joined a troupe of French actors. Around 1650, he was engaged by the Troupe du Marais, which he left to join the Troupe de l’Hôtel de Bourgogne. He retired in 1684 with a pension of 1,000 livres and married the following year. He was to lose his sight two years later. A celebrated actor, he enjoyed even greater success as a playwright. (Dictionnaire des Lettres Françaises, 491). His first play, *L’Amant qui ne flatte point*, is a comedy inspired by *The Misanthrope*. *Le Souper mal apprêté* tells the story of a young man who finds himself unable to pay for the supper to which he has invited his mistress and his friends. Hauteroche then published his most successful play: *Crispin, le médecin*, which is reminiscent of *Le Médecin malgré lui* and *L’Amour médecin*, and was performed more than 800 times at the Comédie-Française between 1680 and 1835. In 1674, he wrote a new comedy featuring this character. Music had been all the rage in Paris since the establishment of the Opéra. *Crispin the Musician* was the first play to refer to the rival institution and was nicknamed the ‘opéra de l’Hôtel de Bourgogne’ because Hauteroche had musical interludes performed between each act. In his other plays, Hauteroche continues to paint amusing pictures of the customs of the provincial nobility and the bourgeoisie. (See LANCASTER, III, p. 770 ff., IV, 457)
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