FABRE D'ÉGLANTINE (Philippe-François-Nazaire... - Lot 21 - Osenat

FABRE D'ÉGLANTINE (Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre, said). Autograph manuscript entitled " L'Aristocrate en convalescence ou le Convalescent de qualité " (title partially crossed out). 43 pp. in-folio in a booklet bound with a string, upper margins wet and frayed with several missing text. Piece created on January 28, 1791 at the Théâtre-italien, published the same year under the title Le Convalescent de qualité, ou l'Aristocrate. A LOVE INTRIGUE WITH A BACKGROUND OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGES: Fabre d'Églantine presents an old marquis burdened with debts who, recluse by his doctor fearing for his health, belatedly discovers the revolutionary events, and ends up agreeing to let his daughter marry a rich farmer's son, an officer in the National Guard, mistaking him for an army colonel. Le Convalescent de qualité was a great success, one passage having been particularly applauded, the one where the doctor attacks the ministers and the Great, "very divided between them, / But constantly united in a disastrous point, / In the infamous project of devouring France", while defending Louis XVI: "But for the present day, the august Providence, / Wanted us to keep, in spite of you a just king...". THIS PIECE WAS THUS HELD AGAINST HIM DURING HIS TRIAL IN 1794, AND CONTRIBUTED TO SEND HIM TO THE SCAFFOLD. At the bottom of the last page, a handwritten visa of censorship of the town hall of Paris dated January 8, 1791: "... allowed to represent... ".