Les Battus paient l'Amende

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Les Battus paient l'Amende (“The beaten pay the fine “) by Dorvigny (Louis-François Archambault, 1742-1812)[1] is described as a “proverbe-comédie-parade ou ce que l'on voudra” (a proverb-comedy-parade, or what you will"). Later retitled Janot, ou les Battus paient l'Amende.


The original text

Had its première at the Theatre Variétés Amusantes, Paris, on 6 June 1779, published in Paris as Les Battus paient l'Amende by L. Jorry, 1779 and in a new edition as Janot, ou les Battus paient l'Amende by Alphonse Berenguier in 1800.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1805: Performed on 17 June in French by the Fransch Liefhebbery Theater Gezelschap ("French Amateur Theatre Company") in the African Theatre Cape Town, with Les Souldiers Mordorés, ou La Cordonnière Allemande (Ferrières).

Sources

Facsimile version of the second edition (L. Jorry, Paris,1779), Google E-Book[2]

Facsimile version of the new French edition (Alphonse Berenguier, Paris, 1800), Google E-Book[3]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 90,

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