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| − | ''[[Le Savetier et le Financier, ou Contentement passe Richesse]]'' ("The cobbler and the financier, or contentment is more valuable than wealth") is a one act "[[comédie-vaudeville]]" by Jean Frans Merle and Brazier. | + | ''[[Le Savetier et le Financier, ou Contentement passe Richesse]]'' ("The cobbler and the financier, or contentment is more valuable than wealth") is a one act "[[comédie-vaudeville]]" by Jean Frans Merle Jean-Toussaint Merle (1789–1852)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Toussaint_Merle] and Nicolas Brazier (1783-1838)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Brazier]. |
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
| − | Translated into [[Dutch]] as '''''[[Sans Quartier, of Het Vergenoegen Overtreft den Rykdom]]''''' (Sans Quartier, or or contentment is more valuable than wealth" - the main title taken from the name of the | + | Translated into [[Dutch]] as '''''[[Sans Quartier, of Het Vergenoegen Overtreft den Rykdom]]''''' ("Sans Quartier, or or contentment is more valuable than wealth" - the main title taken from the name of the cobbler in the play, "Sans Quartier" - "without giving quarter", "ruthless"). |
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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Facsimile version of the third edition of the French text, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=2sBoAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false] | Facsimile version of the third edition of the French text, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=2sBoAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false] | ||
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| + | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Toussaint_Merle | ||
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| + | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Brazier | ||
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 453-4, | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 453-4, | ||
Latest revision as of 06:23, 19 June 2017
Le Savetier et le Financier, ou Contentement passe Richesse ("The cobbler and the financier, or contentment is more valuable than wealth") is a one act "comédie-vaudeville" by Jean Frans Merle Jean-Toussaint Merle (1789–1852)[1] and Nicolas Brazier (1783-1838)[2].
Contents
The original text
First performed in the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris on 4 March 1815, and published by Barba, 1815.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Sans Quartier, of Het Vergenoegen Overtreft den Rykdom ("Sans Quartier, or or contentment is more valuable than wealth" - the main title taken from the name of the cobbler in the play, "Sans Quartier" - "without giving quarter", "ruthless").
Performance history in South Africa
1848: Performed in Dutch by Hoop en Trouw on 24 November in the Hoopstraat-Skouburg (Hope Street Theatre) in Cape Town, as afterpiece to Siegfried van Hohenwart (Westerman).
1849: Performed in Dutch by the same company (now renamed Tot Oefening en Vermaak) on 4 September in the Hoopstraat-Skouburg (Hope Street Theatre) in Cape Town, as afterpiece to De Deserteur (Von Kotzebue).
Sources
Facsimile version of the third edition of the French text, Google E-book[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Toussaint_Merle
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Brazier
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 453-4,
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