Dramatis Personae
Beauseant, a rich gentleman of Lyons, in love with, and refused by, Pauline Deschappelles MR. ELTON.
GLAVIS, his friend, also a rejected suitor to Pauline MR. MEADOWS.
COLONEL (afterwards General) DAMAS, cousin to Mme. Deschappelles, and an officer in the French army MR. BARTLEY.
MONSIEUR DESCHAPPELLES, a Lyonnese merchant father to Pauline
MR. STRICKLAND.
| GASPAR | MR. DIDDEAR. |
| CLAUDE MELNOTTE | MR. MACREADY. |
| FIRST OFFICER | MR. HOWE. |
| SECOND OFFICER | MR. PRITCHARD. |
| THIRD OFFICER | MR. ROBERTS. |
| Servants, Notary, etc. | |
| MADAME DESCHAPPELLES | MRS. W. CLIFFORD. |
| PAULINE, her daughter | MISS HELEN FAUCIT. |
| THE WIDOW MELNOTTE, mother to Claude | MRS. GRIFFITH. |
| JANET, the innkeeper’s daughter | MRS. EAST. |
| MARIAN, maid to Pauline | MISS GARRICK. |
Scene—Lyons and the neighborhood.
Time—1795-1798
First performed on Thursday, the 15th of February, 1838, at Covent Garden Theatre.