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    L'Orphelin de la Chine (transl. The Orphan of China) is a 1753 French play by Voltaire based on The Orphan of Zhao, a thirteenth-century Chinese play attributed...
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    Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier (category Prix de Rome for painting)
    des Beaux-Arts de Rouen Une Soirée chez Madame Geoffrin - ou Lecture de la tragédie "L’Orphelin de la Chine" de Voltaire dans le salon de Madame Geoffrin...
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    five) and duration. In 1753, Voltaire wrote his adaptation titled L'Orphelin de la Chine. Voltaire's thesis about his play was that the story exemplified...
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  • of Zhao Wu, which was adapted into the 18th century French play L'Orphelin de la Chine. In 583 BCE, Xianzi of Han gave his political support to Zhao Wu...
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  • characters in a few of his plays, including Le Duc d’Alençon and L’Orphelin de la Chine. Rosaline in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is never seen...
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    Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, premiered at the Académie royale de musique 9 January 1756: Les Magots, parody of L'Orphelin de la Chine by Voltaire, in...
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  • European literati interested in China was Voltaire, who wrote the play L'orphelin de la Chine inspired by The Orphan of Zhao, Leibniz who penned his famous Novissima...
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    and this was also true at the theatre of the Comédie-Française, the Salle de la rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-des-Prés. High-priced tickets were sold to...
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    Upholsterer (1758) The Orphan of China (1759), tragedy (an adaption of L'Orphelin de la Chine (1755) by Voltaire and its source, a translation of The Orphan of...
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    work, written from 1756, was on a similar topic to Voltaire's play L'Orphelin de la Chine, Murphy asserted that he had written his before he became aware...
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    La princesse de Navarre (1745) Sémiramis (1748), inspiration for Semiramide, opera by Gioachino Rossini (1823) Nanine (1749) L'Orphelin de la Chine (1755)...
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    mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle par feue Madame la Marquise du Châtelet (1st edition, 1756; 2nd edition, 1759) Other Examen de la Genèse Examen...
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  • Jones – The Earl of Essex Edward Moore – The Gamester Voltaire – L'Orphelin de la Chine Edward Young – The Brothers John Armstrong – Taste Thomas Cooke...
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  • Reading of the Tragedy 'L'Orphelin de la Chine' in the Salon of Madame Geoffrin, or An Evening at Madame Geoffrin's by Lemonnier 1812...
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    en vers by Jean de La Fontaine, Histoires ou contes du temps passé by Charles Perrault, and Contes cruels [fr] by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the...
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  • Zaïre (1732) Mahomet (1741) Mérope (1743) La princesse de Navarre (1745) Nanine (1749) L'Orphelin de la Chine (1755) Beaumarchais Eugénie (1767) Les Deux...
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    classical theater (it can be found in Racine's Esther and Voltaire's L'Orphelin de la Chine), had in fact taken on a juvenile connotation in the first third...
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    tragedie de Voltaire qui s'inspire de la Chine". Le Bonheur de la littérature. Variations critiques pour Béatrice Didier. Paris: Presses universitaires de France...
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    Voltaire (film) (category Cultural depictions of Madame de Pompadour)
    powerful ally in Madame Pompadour (Doris Kenyon), Louis' mistress, but the Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) opposes him for his own ends. When Voltaire pleads for...
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    un homme du vieux temps sur l’Orphelin de la Chine (by Voltaire), in-8°; 1765: Сassandre aubergiste, parody of Le Père de famille; 1765: l’Inoculation...
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    one act The Magnanimous Turk (26 October 1779), ballet in one act L'Orphelin de la Chine (14 January 1780), ballet in one act Harp Player (2 March 1780)...
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    Naoki (2014). Tradition et Modernité: Étude des Tragédies de Voltaire (PhD). Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris III. Retrieved 3 November 2018....
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  • Tamerlan tragédie lyrique 4 acts Étienne Morel de Chédeville, after Voltaire's L'orphelin de la Chine 16 October 1786 Berlin, Königliche Opernhaus Panthée...
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    printed in 1731 with Jean-François Josse in Paris, together with a Discours sur la Tragédie by Voltaire, dedicated to Lord Bolingbroke. Thirteen individual editions...
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  • vers. Par M. de Voltaire. Donnée sur le Théâtre de Caronge (sic!), Près Genève, en 1758, Geneva, (Lambert), 1759, 8 °, 71 pp (online) La Femme qui a raison...
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  • do so. Prémare's translation inspired Voltaire's 1753 tragedy L'Orphelin de la Chine. De Prémare's writings also include a defense of figurism proposed...
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    GGKEY:LB24T09PYN0. "TANCRÈDE". Base la Grange. Comédie-Française. Retrieved 10 November 2018. Scholler, Catherine. "Tancrède de Voltaire". forumopera.com. Forum...
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    the play was La Mérope Française, avec quelques petites pièces de Litterature, Paris, Chez Prault fils, Libraire, Quai de Conty, vis-à-vis la descente du...
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  • Comédie-Française 1965 : Suréna de Corneille, mise en scène Maurice Escande, Comédie-Française 1965 : L'Orphelin de la Chine de Voltaire, mise en scène Jean...
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  • Comédie-Française 1965: L'Orphelin de la Chine by Voltaire, directed by Jean Mercure, Comédie-Française 1967: L'Émigré de Brisbane by Georges Schéhadé...
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