Guests of the Fête, Dancers from the Opera, King’s Guardsmen, Monks, Clowns, Pages, Milliners, Sentries, Lackeys, Footmen, King’s Secret Police, Sans-Culottes, a Mock King, a Mock Herald, a Drunken Patriot, a Cocoa Vender, Federals, National Guards, Tricoteuses.
SYNOPSIS OF SCENES.
| Act | I.— | The Milliner’s Shop in the Rue St. Honoré, Paris. JEANNETTE TRIMS HATS. |
| Act | II.— | (One month later.) Jeannette’s Apartments, adjoining the Gambling Rooms of the Marquise deQuesnoy (“La Gourdan”). “THE GAME CALLED DESTINY.” |
| Act | III.— | (A year later.) Du Barry holds a Petit-Lever in the Palace of Versailles—at noon. “THE DOLL OF THE WORLD.” |
| Act | IV.— | Scene 1. In the Royal Gardens. Before the dawn of the following morning. “FOLLY, QUEEN OF FRANCE.” Scene 2. Within the Tent. “THE HEART OF THE WOMAN.” |
| Act | V.— | (A lapse of years.) During the Revolution. Scene 1. The Retreat in the Woods of Louveciennes. “FATE CREEPS IN AT THE DOOR.” Scene 2. (Five days later.) In Paris again. “A REED SHAKEN IN THE WIND.” Scene 3. In Front of the Milliner’s Shop on the same day. |
| “Once more we pass this way again, Once more! ’T is where at first we met.” | ||
Time: Period of King Louis the Fifteenth and after the reign of his Successor.
Place: Paris, Versailles, and Louveciennes.