Le Ramoneur Prince et Le Prince Ramoneur
Le Ramoneur Prince et Le Prince Ramoneur is a one act French “comédie-proverbe” in prose by Beaunoir (Alexandre Louis Bertrand Robineau, 1746-1823)[1]. In some books the play is ascribed to Maurin de Pompigny and dated 1784, though this is usually in English books, and is possibly the result of their using Pompigny's English translation of Beaunoir's play.
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The original text
First performed in Paris, at the Théâtre des Varietes Amusantes, on 22 December, 1784 and first published by Didor, 1786.
Translations
Translated into Dutch as De Schoorsteenveger Prins en De Prins Schoorsteenveger by Maurin de Pompigny and published by Jacob Petrus van Heel in Rotterdam, 1799.
Performance history in South Africa
1833: Performed in Dutch by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in the African Theatre on 7 September, as an afterpiece to Clavigo (Goethe). The title was inverted to read De Prins Schoorsteenveger en de Schoorsteenveger Prins for this performance, according to F.C.L. Bosman (1928: p. 321).
Sources
http://www.earlydutchbooksonline.nl/nl/view/info/id/dpo:2734:mpeg21
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaunoir
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[2]: pp. 321.
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