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 1 IX       |   besides, they are putting on a play [Footnote: Les Don Juan
 2 XV       |         let them perform a fairy play: la Nuit de Noel from the
 3 XV       |     wouldn’t they try your fairy play? Do you want me to ask them?
 4 XVI      |         US a propos of the fairy play. I don’t know with whom
 5 XVII     |       November (after Bouilhet’s play) nothing will prevent you,
 6 XVII     |         agreed?~As for the fairy play, thanks for your kind offers
 7 XVIII    |     performance of your friend’s play, and I shall do my fraternal
 8 XX       |   finally bore you.~The Bouilhet play will open the first part
 9 XXI      |        at the time of Bouilhet’s play. I shall be here, working
10 XXII     |        the Odeon that Bouilhet’s play is on the 27th. I must be
11 XXIII    |      1866~Dear friend, since the play is on the 29th I shall give
12 XXIV     |         talent. He left a pretty play, Michel Perrin.~I travelled
13 XXVII    | Wednesday~I have not yet read my play. I have still something
14 XXVII    |     Nothing pressing. Bouilhet’s play goes admirably well, and
15 XXVII    |         friend of Maurice Sand.] play would come next. And, for
16 XXVII    |        Duquesnel about the fairy play. He wants very much to know
17 XXXVII   |       are doing. How far has the play gone?~I am not at all surprised
18 XXXIX    |    evening they told me that his play was going better and better.
19 L        |         go to Paris soon for the play by his son Dumas, let us
20 LXXIV    |        which everything ought to play before he plays on others;
21 LXXIV    |          the properties, and the play continues with the same
22 LXXXVI   |         their friends, after the play;— songs, laughter, with
23 LXXXVIII |        her re-appearance in your play. (But I thought she was
24 LXXXVIII |     dying). And when are they to play this Cadio? Are you content?
25 LXXXIX   |      last week, four acts of the play, and my task is finished
26 LXXXIX   |          see the putting-on of a play in order to understand that,
27 LXXXIX   |         the month, and when they play Cadio, I shall beg you to
28 XCIII    |      chance) is page 161!~In the play won’t you have to give a
29 XCIII    |          good Saint-Gueltas? The play ought not to be very hard
30 XCIV     |         it to be writing another play while they are rehearsing,
31 XCVI     |           Here I am with another play already underway, so as
32 C        |          life where one does not play a role is such a pretty
33 CIII     |      think, that I had written a play on returning from Paris.
34 CIII     |         but I don’t want them to play it in the spring, and the
35 CIII     |         is filled up, unless the play they are rehearsing fails.
36 CXIII    |          free; I have to read my play with Chilly on account of
37 CXXV     |        are at work putting on my play and do not speak of anything
38 CXXIX    |         the very beginning, your play was to come after Aisse;
39 CXXXI    |         It seems to me that your play can be given the 15th of
40 CXXXV    |       was working over the fairy play? I am doing now a description
41 CXXXVI   |         the reading of the fairy play. Applause, enthusiasm. I
42 CXXXVI   |   Raphael so well understood the play that he gave me two or three
43 CXXXVI   |          declares that the fairy play would entail expenses that
44 CXLI     |       some manuscript. The FAIRY PLAY re-done, Saint-Antoine,
45 CXLIV    |        thinks that they will not play l’Affranchi longer than
46 CXLVII   |          you in the theatre. The play applauded and hissed, more
47 CXLIX    |         thaw is not very bad. My play is for the 22d. [Footnote:
48 CL       |        that reading of the fairy play. Are you satisfied? Did
49 CXCVI    |        to put on well a literary play such as Aisse, and that
50 CXCVII   |         put our evil passions in play, and you will see whether
51 CC       |      influential nucleus, a good play would perhaps not have a
52 CC       |          performances, but a bad play would not have three hundred.
53 CCI      |      They don’t bother about the play, but the lesson to be preached.
54 CCIII    |          Ch. Edmond’s successful play, you are well, you have
55 CCIV     |          Monday next. I read the play to the actors today, and
56 CCVII    |         has done nothing for the play! On the contrary. The day
57 CCVIII   |         vacation at once. I will play the marionettes for him,
58 CCXXXV   |     Paris when I go there for my play. I have not arranged with
59 CCXL     |        Paris before February. My play is postponed on account
60 CCXLIV   |       don’t think that they will play Mademoiselle La Quintinie.
61 CCLVII   | something very quick and easy to play. We shall see.~Adieu, dear
62 CCLX     |        build the plot of another play! It will be called le Candidat.
63 CCLXI    |     preserved.~What news of your play? Have you begun your book?
64 CCLXII   |       have forbidden Coetlogon’s play formally, BECAUSE IT CRITICISED
65 CCLXIV   |  distorting the real idea of the play. But he is asking to play
66 CCLXIV   |        play. But he is asking to play le Candidat first, it is
67 CCLXV    |          same. I think that your play is surely postponed and
68 CCLXVII  |          Keep in touch with your play and don’t get ill this hateful
69 CCLXVIII |      25th of this month. As that play gave me very little trouble
70 CCLXVIII |          have excellent wigs and play like angels. I think it
71 CCLXVIII |          ragamuffin, so that the play, conceived in the spirit
72 CCLXX    |          francs.~I think that my play will be very well given,
73 CCLXX    |          censorship to forbid my play. Our friend Chennevieres
74 CCLXXI   |       papers, the course of your play. I would go to applaud it,
75 CCLXXI   |          me, without knowing the play, I predict a success on
76 CCLXXII  |       flatter me insist that the play will do better before the
77 CCLXXII  |         I know the defects of my play better than anyone. If Carvalho
78 CCLXXII  |     Delannoy who carries all the play, is distressed, and I don’
79 CCLXXIII |      friendship,” not to have my play printed, he thinks it so “
80 CCLXXIII |         of demoralization. If my play had been sustained by the
81 CCLXXIV  |      horror, I have withdrawn my play on the payment of five thousand
82 CCLXXIV  |        is over. I am printing my play, you will get it towards
83 CCLXXV   |  mistaken. I am at work now on a play; it is not possible to know
84 CCLXXVI  |           dear good master, that play that they talk about, is
85 CCLXXVII |         I am working still on my play, I don’t at all know if
86 CCLXXVIII|        by Perrin, who thinks the play off-color and unconventional. “
87 CCLXXIX  |       how and where?~Is it for a play that you came? I pity you
88 CCLXXIX  |         theatre.~It is that very play le Sexe faible that, last
89 CCLXXXI  |       You don’t tell me how your play is getting on at the Odeon.~
90 CCLXXXI  |          disposed to put on that play in October. He is reckoning
91 CCLXXXII |         blames me for letting my play be given in such a joint.
92 CCLXXXII |          others do not want that play and since I insist that
93 CCLXXXIV |  withdrew in time. At present my play has been offered to the
94 CCLXXXIX |  surprised to hear her laugh and play like a child, always good,
95 CCCIII   |          Mariage de Victorine, a play of mine, at the Theatre
96 CCCV     |          That is beyond me. Your play charmed me and made me weep
97 CCCIX    |          the witty things in the play produced a laugh, and the
98 CCCXIII  |         you agree with me that a play of very great effect could