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''[[La Frontière de Savoie]]'' ("The border of Savoy") is a farce in one act by Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe] and J.F.A (Jean-François Alfred) Bayard (1796-1853)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bayard]. 


== The original text ==


First performed in Paris at the Théâtre du Gymnase Dramatique[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Gymnase_Marie-Bell] on 20 August 1834. (Often only attributed to Scribe alone)


== Translations and adaptations ==


Translated into English as  ''[[A Peculiar Position]]'' by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9], first performed in London at the Olympic Theatre on 3 May 1837. Published in London by Chapman and Hall, 1837.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1854: Was apparently to have been performed in English, as  ''[[A Peculiar Position]]'',  on 11 July 1854 by [[Garrison Players]] , as after piece to ''[[Charles XII; or, the Siege of Stralsund|Charles the Twelfth]]'' (Planché). It seems this did not take place due to the illness of the stage manager, but was probably done some time later in July, with the addition of ''[[Two Bonnycastles|The Two Bonnycastles]]'' (J.M. Morton). The performances were repeated on Friday, 18 August,  now with another  addition, that  of  ''[[The Honeymoon]]'' (Tobin).

== Sources ==

John Gassner and Edward Quinn (eds) The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama, Google Books[http://books.google.co.za/books?id=oPOQf26l-PEC&pg=PA753&lpg=PA753&dq=a+peculiar+position+eugene+scribe&source=bl&ots=Q3J6HMOYO7&sig=eODisPxoaIxv891vVCpvlLsQoRw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4mtLU8W4Oc3A7AbO_oDwCg&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=a%20peculiar%20position%20eugene%20scribe&f=false]

Donald Roy (ed)  1986. Plays by James Robinson Planché, Google Books[http://books.google.co.za/books?id=YgU4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA235&dq=A+Peculiar+Position+Scribe&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ym1LU4_ZNqOv7Qb2ooCwDg&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=A%20Peculiar%20Position%20Scribe&f=false] 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bayard

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.  408

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