I can assert that the exclamation Charming! charming! repeatedly interrupted the reader.

The piece was admitted for performance at Fontainebleau; and for the first time the King had the curtain dropped before the end of the play.

It was called the "Dramomane" or "Dramaturge." All the characters died of eating poison in a pie.

The Queen, highly disconcerted at having recommended this absurd production, announced that she would never hear another reading; and this time she kept her word.
The tragedy of "Mustapha and Mangir," by M.de Chamfort, was highly successful at the Court theatre at Fontainebleau.

The Queen procured the author a pension of 1,200 francs, but his play failed on being performed at Paris.
The spirit of opposition which prevailed in that city delighted in reversing the verdicts of the Court.