Le Savetier et le Financier, ou Contentement passe Richesse

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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.

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 one leading character, "Sans Quartier", meaning "with no neighbourhood").

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[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 453-4,

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