Francisquine, bloody, drags herself along the boards.

She chokes; she cannot speak.

Tabarin, mad with despair, gives her the sword, begs her to kill him.

She seizes the sword, raises herself, hiccoughs, gasps out the word "Canaille," and dies before she can strike.
Paul Ferrier and Emanuel Pessard produced a grand opera in two acts entitled "Tabarin" in Paris in 1885; Alboiz and Andre a comic opera with the same title, music by Georges Bousquet, in 1852.

Gilles and Furpilles brought out an operetta called "Tabarin Duelliste," with music by Leon Pillaut, in 1866.