![]() Two rows, one over the other, of side galleries: the highest divided into boxes. There are broad steps from the stage to the hall on either side of these steps are the places for the violinists. Above a harlequin's mantle are the royal arms. The curtain is composed of two tapestries which can be drawn aside. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. ![]() The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. ![]() ACT 1Ī Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The crowd, troopers, burghers (male and female), marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascons cadets, actors (male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldiers, Spaniards, spectators (male and female), precieuses, nuns, etc. ![]()
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