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Casimir Delavigne Intime: From Unpublished Letters from his Father and other Relatives in France to his Uncle in Louisiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Alcée Fortier
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The French critics of our day judge the work of Casimir Delavigne with a severity which I consider unjust. His Messéniennes, of which the first three were published in 1818, made the hearts of his contemporaries thrill with patriotic enthusiasm, and his Parisienne, music by Auber, written during the Revolution of 1830, was, for a time, as popular as the Marseillaise. One will always read with pleasure his fourth and his fifth Messénienne, Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, and Mort de Jeanne d'Arc, and the second of his Nouvelles Messéniennes, Trois Jours de Christophe Colomb.

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PMLA , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , 1913 , pp. 140 - 158
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1913

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1 News of the Theatres.—The representation of la Muette de Portici, which took place at the Court Theatre last Tuesday, produced the greatest effect on the august assembly. The King, as a mark of the satisfaction which he had felt, sent to Messrs. Scribe and Germain Delavigne a magnificent copy of the works of Tacitus, and to Mr. Auber a bronze statue of Henry IV when a child, according to Bosio.