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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 214. Not illustrated. Chapters: Les Dragons de Villars, the Flower Duet, Philemon et Baucis, le Premier Jour de Bonheur, Dardanus, le Diable a Quatre, Amadis, Chilperic, Cinq-Mars, le Temple de La Gloire, Les Fetes de Polymnie, le Devin Du Village, Persee, Herodiade, Thesee, Atys, Fortunio, Cadmus et Hermione, Antigone, La Reine Fiammette, Therese, Semele, le Portrait de Manon, Panurge, Don Cesar de Bazan, Etre Dieu, Sapho, Les Ages, Isis, Montezuma, Nina, La Mort D'adam, L'ambassadrice, le Jugement de Midas, Daphnis et Egle, le Tribut de Zamora, Charles Vi, Ghiselle, le Juif Errant, Tarare, Maitre Pierre, Colinette a La Cour, La Rencontre Imprevue, L'enfant Prodigue, le Cadi Dupe, Les Fetes de L'hymen et de L'amour, Ivanhoe, le Peintre Amoureux de Son Modele, Proserpine, Monna Vanna, le Mage, Aucassin et Nicolette, Les Fetes D'hebe, Noe, L'attaque Du Moulin, La Colombe, Les Mariages Samnites, Polyeucte, La Naissance D'osiris, le Docteur Miracle, L'ecole de La Jeunesse, Alcine, le Carnaval de Venise, le Nabab, L'hotellerie Portugaise, L'amant Statue, Julie, La Maison Du Docteur, La Belle Au Bois Dormant, Jocelyn, La Mere Coupable, Ariodant, Bellerophon, L epreuve Villageoise, Bagatelle, L'artisan, Pygmalion, Les Noces de Jeannette. Excerpt: Les dragons de Villars is an opera-comique in three acts by Aime Maillart to a libretto by Eugene Cormon and Joseph-Philippe Lockroy. The piece was first offered to the director of the Opera-Comique, Emile Perrin, who found the piece too dark, even after having the composer play some of it to him. It was next offered to Edmond Seveste, then directeur of the Theatre-Lyrique who also rejected it. Some years later, the authors met Carvalho, who had just taken over the direction of the Theatre-Lyrique, and who accepted the completed piece without reading a word or hearing a note. Les dragons de Vi...
