Marie Simon

Marie Simon is a French play in five acts by Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol (1805-1854)[], Alboize et Saint Yves E. Déaddé ()[] and Adolphe Choler (1821-1889)[].

Marie Simon, a drama with Saint-Yves,

First performed in Paris at the Théatre l'Ambigu Comique on 27 September, 1852. Published in Théatre Contmeporain Illustré in Paris by Michel Lévy frères in the same year.

Adapted into English as Lilian Gervais, a drama in three acts, by Morris Barnett (1800–1856)[1] (originally Lilian Rene, or The pearl of Normandy). First performed at the Olympic Theatre, London, on 17 January 1853. Published by Thomas Hailes Lacy as vol. 31, no. 464 in the same year.

Facsimile version of the original French text published by Michel Lévy, The Internet Archive[ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_03.djvu/266]

http://www.xn--thtre-documentation-cvb0m.com/content/choler-adolphe

https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/dramaandtheatre/documents/pdf/lcp/playslicensedin1853.pdf

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press [2]