Le Mariage par escalade
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| Title: | Le Mariage par escalade |
| Genus: | comedy |
| Original language: | French |
| Author: | Charles-Simon Favart |
| Premiere: | September 9 / September 11, 1756 |
| Place of premiere: | Bagatelle Castle / Opéra-Comique |
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Le Mariage par escalade ( French original title) is a comedy in one act by Charles-Simon Favart .
The piece was written during the Seven Years' War on the occasion of the conquest of Menorca (1756) by a French expeditionary force in 1756. The actual premiere took place in the context of a festival given for the victorious general Duke von Richelieu in the Bagatelle Palace. Favart's work was very successful at the time due to the euphoric mood in the Kingdom of France after the victory of Menorca. The action takes place against the backdrop of the siege of Mahón : the French officer Valere and the English officer Tomson are rivals in the battle for the heart of the beautiful Elvire. The libretto is characterized by a clear anglophobia :
“Victoire, victoire, victoire / Pour les Français quelle gloire. / Rien ne résiste à nos efforts! / Ah! chiens d'Anglais, vous êtes morts! (Scene XIV) "
“ Victory, victory, victory / for the French, what fame / nothing stands against our strength! / Ah! English dogs, you are dead! "
The conquest of Menorca triggered a wave of enthusiasm and caused the emergence of numerous patriotic occasional poems and compositions whose martial style already shows similarities to the aesthetics of the French Revolution . Favart's Opéra-comique occupies a special position among these works due to the famous author and her success.
expenditure
- [Charles-Simon Favart]: Festival donnée à Monsieur le Maréchal Duc de Richelieu à and back de l'expédition de Minorque. Par Madame la Marquise de Monconseil a Bagatelle le 9 septembre 1756, Paris 1756. Google digitized version
literature
- Edmond Dziembowski: La guerre de Sept Ans, 1756–1763 , Paris 2015, pp. 176–179.
- Andreas Wagner: War and literature in a France of change. Investigations based on songs, poems and plays from the years 1756 to 1807 , Anif / Salzburg 1990.