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![Costume designs for the première of Les Huguenots](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Eug%C3%A8ne_Du_Faget_-_Costume_designs_for_Les_Huguenots_-_2._Julie_Dorus-Gras_as_Marguerite%2C_Adolphe_Nourrit_as_Raoul%2C_and_Corn%C3%A9lie_Falcon_as_Valentine.jpg/450px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Du_Faget_-_Costume_designs_for_Les_Huguenots_-_2._Julie_Dorus-Gras_as_Marguerite%2C_Adolphe_Nourrit_as_Raoul%2C_and_Corn%C3%A9lie_Falcon_as_Valentine.jpg)
Credit: Eugène Du Faget, restored by Adam Cuerden
Costume designs for the première of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots featuring Julie Dorus-Gras as Marguerite, Adolphe Nourrit as Raoul, and Cornélie Falcon as Valentine. Three years after the premiere, Nouritt, beset with physical and mental illness, committed suicide in Naples.