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L'Impromptu de Paris

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L'Impromptu de Paris
Written byJean Giraudoux
Date premiered3 December 1937
Place premieredThéâtre de l'Athénée in Paris
Original languageFrench
SubjectA play about the theatre itself
GenreDrama
SettingA theatre stage

L'Impromptu de Paris (In English: The Shepherd of Paris) is a play written in 1937 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

Original productions

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L'Impromptu de Paris was first performed on 3 December 1937[1] in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Louis Jouvet.[2]

L'Impromptu de Paris was translated into English by Rima Dell Reck, in the Tulane Drama Review (1959).[3]

References

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  1. ^ Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York.
  2. ^ Inskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.
  3. ^ Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 158, University of Chicago Press, Chicago