La Sirène de Paris

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La Sirène de Paris is a drama in five acts and six tableaux by Eugène Grangé (1810-1887)[1] and Xavier de Montépin (1823-1902)[2]


The original text

Published in Paris by M. Lévy fr. in 1860, first performed at the Théâtre De L'Ambigu-Comique, paris, on 19 April 1860.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into English as The Syren of Paris, a romantic drama in two acts by William E. Suter (1811?-1882)[]

Publisher William Hailes Lacy, 1860,

Performance history in South Africa

1867: Performed in the Theatre Royal by the Garrison Players on 19 October, with The Area Belle (Brough and Halliday).


Sources

Facsimile version of the 1860 edition of the French text[3]

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Syren_of_Paris.html?id=dX3bngEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

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