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3 unusual facts about La jolie parfumeuse


La jolie parfumeuse

It was seen at the Alhambra in London from 18 May 1874 with Kate Santley, bowdlerized, as the libretto was « inadmissible in an English theatre ».

Also present is Poirot (in reality a Swiss worker at the Hotel Saint-Florentin – although from Nogent).

The work was successfully revived again in 1892 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance (with Juliette Simon-Girard as Rose and Simon-Max as Poirot) and in 1898 at the Théâtre de la Gaîté with Mariette Sully.



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