Pierrot ou Le diamant perdu

Pierrot ou Le diamant perdu is a French vaudeville in 2 acts by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1772-1827) and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac (1769-1846)[1]

The original text

First performed at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris (France) on 11 March, 1813]].

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch by C.A Van Ray[]

South African performances

1834: Performed in Dutch text by Tot Nut en Vermaak in the African Theatre on 2 August, 1834, as an afterpiece to the tragedy Frederik de Groote te Spandau, of Het Lasterschrift (Dorvo)and accompanied by a ballet by C.E. Boniface as interlude.

Sources

Bosman, 1928: p 147;

http://data.bnf.fr/39498634/pierrot_ou_le_diamant_perdu_spectacle_1813/

"Théatre de Désaugiers" in the Internet Archive[2]

http://data.bnf.fr/39498634/pierrot_ou_le_diamant_perdu_spectacle_1813/

Facsimile version of the original French text, https://books.google.co.za/books?id=5C9aAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Pierrot,+ou+Le+diamant+perdu&source=bl&ots=v_gHT1N8YE&sig=3U4RSIE4IRgyba0l3ndL8TRmaf0&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiF65_Nnr_LAhXIOBoKHUbrAFAQ6AEIJTAC#v=onepage&q=Pierrot%2C%20ou%20Le%20diamant%20perdu&f=false

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