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See: '''[[Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap]]''' and '''[[Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense]].''' | See: '''[[Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap]]''' and '''[[Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense]].''' | ||
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Revision as of 05:51, 23 March 2016
The French Company is generic English name given at times to 19th century amateur or professional theatrical companies performing in French. Among them Charles Mathurin Villet's bilingual (Dutch/French) company Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap and Charles Etienne Boniface's multilingual company Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense, both active in Cape Town in the early 1800s.
See: Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap and Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense.
Performed Barnabas by Holberg on 18 May 1804 in Cape Town to collect money to repair the Drostdy at Stellenbosch, which had burnt down.
See also French theatre in South Africa
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