Climène – a provincial woman who abhors the countryside – is staying at an inn in Paris, to keep her father company while he is being kept in the city for a trial. Together with her servant Laurette and two of her friends, the Marquis and Timante, they make fun of the way the other characters speak. They all attend a puppet show, comment on it, and are chided by the puppet Pantalon.

Not specified

Poisson Raymond (aka Belleroche)

France

Paris

Printed

Very young girl's marriage

Provincial life

Talking ridiculous

Comical

French

ou les Marionnettes

Marquis

Vicomtess

Gascon

Normand

Flemish

Brisefer

Innkeeper

Fanchon

Pantaloon

Inn scene

Comical foreign accent

Comical regional accent

Puppet theatre within the theatre

L'Après-souper des auberges

The After-supper at the inns

George Sand arrives in Geneva, where Liszt and his lover Marie de Flavigny, countess d’Agoult, live. Their house is empty when she arrives, and a letter by Liszt lets her know that they have gone to Chamonix. One of the couple’s friends, adjuvant Pictet, lets her in, but he believes her to be a man because of her travel clothes. Liszt and Marie come back. George Sand dresses as a woman and they all laugh at the adjuvant’s mistake. The play ends with a song in which they make fun of Genevan narrow-mindedness.

String marionette

All audiences

Choisy Laure

Switzerland

Geneva

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

Gender

Romanticism

Alps

Historical event

Sexual identity

Journey

Self-righteousness

Satirical

Laure Choisy, Une visite romantique.

Writer

Composer

Major

Countess

Misunderstanding

Cross-dressing

Final song

Letter

Une visite romantique

A romantic visit