Le Secret de Madame

Le Secret de Madame ("The secret of madame") is a one act comedy, mingled with vaudeville, by Charles Francois Jean Baptiste Moreau (1783-1832)[1] and Henri-François Dumolard (1771–1845)[2]

See also the entry under Het Geheim

The original text

Styled a "Comédie En Un Acte, En Prose, Mêlée De Vaudevilles" it was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre De Vaudeville, on Saturday 2 June, 1810 and published by Broché in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Het Geheim van Mevrouw ("The secret of madame") by "J.R.".

Performance history in South Africa

1909: Performed in Dutch as Het Geheim van Mevrouw by Aurora III in the ANV Saal, Cape Town, on 10 October.

1910: Performed in Dutch as Het Geheim van Mevrouw by Aurora III in the ANV Saal, Cape Town, on 3 May.

Sources

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Madame-Vaudevilles-Repr%C3%A9sent%C3%A9e-Vaudeville/dp/1149695293

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Fran%C3%A7ois-Jean-Baptiste_Moreau_de_Commagny

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fran%C3%A7ois_Dumolard

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 476-7,

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