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5 unusual facts about La Basoche


La Basoche

Stage direction was by Hugh Moss, and the cast included David Bispham (alternating with Wallace Brownlow) as the Duke, Ben Davies (and Joseph O'Mara) as Clément Marot, Charles Kenningham as Jehan L'Eville, and John Le Hay as Guillot.

She gets herself taken on at the tavern, where the next day the widowed Louis XII will receive his new young wife, Mary of England, the sister of Henry VIII.

As the king of the basochians is required to be a bachelor, he hides the existence of a wife, Colette, whom he has left behind in Chevreuse.

It was presented in London in 1891 in an English translation by Augustus Harris and Eugène Oudin at Richard D'Oyly Carte's Royal English Opera House (today's Palace Theatre), running from 3 November 1891 to 16 January 1892.

Marie-Anne Asselin

Asselin made her singing debut on April 25, 1919 in the role of Jeanne in La Basoche by André Messager, which was performed in the Théâtre Français in Montreal.


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