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Original French program for the French and German film "Un fichu metier." Three-color wrappers, with black and white photos and color text headers throughout. Text in French. A comedy in which a wayward crown prince is causing trouble for his kingdom (Vodenia), so a minister decides to replace him with a double, a man whose real job is a Parisian haberdasher. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. Six pages, saddle stapled. Very Good plus.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very attractive collection of six theatre pieces in French, viz: 1) Tom Jones A Londres, comedie en cinq actes, en vers. Paris: Baudouin, 1782. Pp iv, 121 (1). First edition. 2) [FLORIAN, Jean-Pierre Claris de] Le Bon menage, ou la suite des Deux billets, comedie en un acte et en prose, Paris, chez Brunet, 1783. Pp 40. First edition. 3) FLORIAN, Jean-Pierre Claris de].Les Deux Billets, comedie en un acte et en prose, Paris, chez la veuve Duchesne, 1780. Pp 28. First edition. 4) AUDINOT, Nicolas-Medard. Les bons et les mechans ou Philemon et Baucis, pantomime en deux actes. represente pour la premiere fois sur le theatre de l'Ambigu Comique, le premier janvier 1783.- A Paris, de l'imprimerie de Cailleau, 1783. Pp 18. 5) [DESFONTAINES, Francois-Georges]. L'Amour et la folie, opera comique, en trois actes, en vaudevilles et en prose. Represente par les Comediens italiens ordinaires du Roi, le mardi 5 Mars 1782. Paris, chez Brunet, 1782. pp [ii] 58, (ii) First edition. 6) DUCIS, Jean-Francois. Le Roi Lear, tragedie en cinq actes. Representee a Versailles devant leurs Majestes, le Jeudi 16 Janvier 1783. A Paris, chez P. Fr. Gueffier, 1783. pp vi, [ii], 116. First edition. Slight foxing to prelims of first piece, printing flaw to page 89, without loss but slight ink mark. 8vo. Contemporary full French calf gilt, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers. A nice, clean example of these early French theatre pieces, with the added interest of showing how English literature was received in France at the end of the eighteenth century.