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There is a [[Dutch]] play called ''[[Het Testament]]'', said to be adapted "from the French"  by P. van der Velde ()[], which could be version of either, though the likely candidate would be the Radet work, but is most likely to be a Dutch version of ''[[L'Héritière]]'' (1834), a "comédie-vaudeville" by Augustin Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne.  
 
There is a [[Dutch]] play called ''[[Het Testament]]'', said to be adapted "from the French"  by P. van der Velde ()[], which could be version of either, though the likely candidate would be the Radet work, but is most likely to be a Dutch version of ''[[L'Héritière]]'' (1834), a "comédie-vaudeville" by Augustin Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne.  
  
See ''[[L'Héritière]]''
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'''See ''[[L'Héritière]]'''''
  
 
=''[[Le Testament]]'' ("The will")  by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle =
 
=''[[Le Testament]]'' ("The will")  by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle =

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There are two French one-act plays by this name:

There is a Dutch play called Het Testament, said to be adapted "from the French" by P. van der Velde ()[], which could be version of either, though the likely candidate would be the Radet work, but is most likely to be a Dutch version of L'Héritière (1834), a "comédie-vaudeville" by Augustin Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne.

See L'Héritière

Le Testament ("The will") by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Le Testament ("The will") is a one act comedy by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle()[]

Published in Volume 8 of Oeuvres de Monsiour De Fontenelle by Bernard Brunet, Paris, in 1751.



Facsimile version of Oeuvres de Monsiour De Fontenelle, Google E-book[1]

Le Testament ("The will") by J.B. Radet

Le Testament, is a vaudeville style one act play ("comédie en un acte et en prose, mêlée de vaudevilles") by J.B. Radet ()[]


First performed at the Theatre de Vaudeville on 5 October, 1797 Published 1797

It may have been the source for the Scribe and Delavigne play of 1834.

facsimnile version of the 1797 edition, Google E-book[2]