Les Deux Grenadiers, ou Les Quiproquos

Les Deux Grenadiers, ou Les Quiproquos ("the two grenadiers or the tit for tats") is a French comedy in three acts by Joseph Patrat (1733-1801).

Original play
Les Deux Grenadiers, ou Les Quiproquos was first performed at the Théâtre de la Cité, and repeated at the Théâtre Montansier in the 1790s. Published in Paris by Barba in 1796, then with changes and corrections in Troyes by Gobelet in 1798/99.

Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as De Twee Grenadiers, of Het Misverstand (The two grenadiers, or the misunderstanding") by Hendrik Kup. The Dutch version published in Amsterdam by J.C. van Kesteren, 1838.

Performance history in South Africa
1826: Performed in Cape Town in Dutch as De Twee Grenadiers, of Het Misverstand by Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense on 30 April, 1826, along with the one act tragedy Het Toegemetselde Venster by August von Kotzebue.

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