PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
Voltaire, a favourite character on the French stage, has owe more been placed thereon, in a short comedic by MM. Louis Lurine and .Alberic Second, called La Come'die d Ferney, and produced at the Fran- cais. The philosopher cures the wife of a bourgeois of a passion she hats conceived for him in consequence of reading his poetry, by making him- self as ridiculous and revolting as possible. In a word, he employs the stratagem used by Mademoiselle Dumesnil in Tirida1e.
MM. Leon Laya and Jules de Premaray have turned the tables upon those French dramatists who have represented ladies of a certain charac- ter as necessarily heartless and inconstant. Two ladies of dubious reputation show themselves so much superior to their lovers in point of fidelity, that the piece in which they appear derives from them the..title Les aeurs d' Or. The site of representation lathe Gymnase.
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