The work was commissioned by Albert Carré and was to be performed at the Opéra-Comique during the 1903–1904 season. ([17] : La Gazette de Biarritz-Bayonne et Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on Gallica). Announced again for the following season, it was still not on the programme in 1917, lamented the journalist from La Rampe. (La Rampe, on Gallica) It was finally presented at the Monte Carlo Opera House in 1921, with Nelly Martyl (leading role), Geneviève Vix (as Louise Mauclair), Paul Goffin (1885-1947) [18] and Dinh Gilly. Libretto (based on Alexandre Dumas's The Young Ladies of Saint-Cyr, 1843): André Lénéka and Arthur Bernède ([19] on Gallica). Lénéka (1856–1937) was also the chief editor of La Rampe, a critic, theatre director, writer of comedies and libretti for opéras comiques: Les Folies amoureuses (music by Émile Pessard), Ninon de Lenclos (music by Louis Maingueneau [fr], La Mare au diable, Ramponnette (music by Casimir Baille and Sélim), Mam'zelle Vendémiaire (music by Germaine Raynal [fr] and Ernest Gillet), as well as comédies-vaudevilles: "Veuve avant la lettre", "Ma Capitaine", "La Chasse aux mariés" (with Henri Kerny [fr]), etc.
The work was commissioned by Albert Carré and was to be performed at the Opéra-Comique during the 1903–1904 season. ([17] : La Gazette de Biarritz-Bayonne et Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on Gallica). Announced again for the following season, it was still not on the programme in 1917, lamented the journalist from La Rampe. (La Rampe, on Gallica) It was finally presented at the Monte Carlo Opera House in 1921, with Nelly Martyl (leading role), Geneviève Vix (as Louise Mauclair), Paul Goffin (1885-1947) [18] and Dinh Gilly. Libretto (based on Alexandre Dumas's The Young Ladies of Saint-Cyr, 1843): André Lénéka and Arthur Bernède ([19] on Gallica). Lénéka (1856–1937) was also the chief editor of La Rampe, a critic, theatre director, writer of comedies and libretti for opéras comiques: Les Folies amoureuses (music by Émile Pessard), Ninon de Lenclos (music by Louis Maingueneau [fr], La Mare au diable, Ramponnette (music by Casimir Baille and Sélim), Mam'zelle Vendémiaire (music by Germaine Raynal [fr] and Ernest Gillet), as well as comédies-vaudevilles: "Veuve avant la lettre", "Ma Capitaine", "La Chasse aux mariés" (with Henri Kerny [fr]), etc.
The work was commissioned by Albert Carré and was to be performed at the Opéra-Comique during the 1903–1904 season. ([17] : La Gazette de Biarritz-Bayonne et Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on Gallica). Announced again for the following season, it was still not on the programme in 1917, lamented the journalist from La Rampe. (La Rampe, on Gallica) It was finally presented at the Monte Carlo Opera House in 1921, with Nelly Martyl (leading role), Geneviève Vix (as Louise Mauclair), Paul Goffin (1885-1947) [18] and Dinh Gilly. Libretto (based on Alexandre Dumas's The Young Ladies of Saint-Cyr, 1843): André Lénéka and Arthur Bernède ([19] on Gallica). Lénéka (1856–1937) was also the chief editor of La Rampe, a critic, theatre director, writer of comedies and libretti for opéras comiques: Les Folies amoureuses (music by Émile Pessard), Ninon de Lenclos (music by Louis Maingueneau [fr], La Mare au diable, Ramponnette (music by Casimir Baille and Sélim), Mam'zelle Vendémiaire (music by Germaine Raynal [fr] and Ernest Gillet), as well as comédies-vaudevilles: "Veuve avant la lettre", "Ma Capitaine", "La Chasse aux mariés" (with Henri Kerny [fr]), etc.
