Behind the Scenes of the Comédie Française

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Excerpt from Behind the Scenes of the Come¿die Franc¿aise: And Other Recollections The Revolution of 1848, so profitable to briefless and other barristers, was disastrous to authors and artists. That small republic starved in the midst of the bigger one. Towards the month of June I had not a penny left. I had sold my last share in the Bank of France for five hundred francs. The price of copy in the newspapers was simply ridiculous. Grirardin coolly spoke of a penny (English) a line. Doctor Veron (Constitutionnel), who had increased the width of his columns by half, had cut down his prices in the same proportion. One day that I was twitting him with splitting his five-franc pieces in twain he replied, "Come and dine with me every day." But could I shut up the house like that, seeing that I had more friends than ever to come and take pot-luck? That period of the Revolution was "hard times" indeed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.