La Comédie Des Tvilleries
Subtitle: Auec Priuilege Du Roy
Publisher: Augustin Courbé?
Published: 1638
Place of publication: Paris?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 100
Notes: Signatures: a⁴, e⁶, A-H⁶, I² (e₄, E₂,₄ incorrectly signed e₃, F₂,₄, respectively)

Page 34 incorrectly numbered 36.

Illustrated title-page, engraved, representing two cherubs holding up an open book upon which the title is inscribed; head and tail pieces; initials.

The idea for the play originated with Cardinal Richelieu; the plan was prepared by Chapelain; and one act each was assigned to Boisrobert, Colletet, Corneille, L'Estoile and Rotrou. According to the greatest probabilities, Rotrou wrote the first act; L'Estoile, the second; Corneille, the third; Boisrobert, the fourth; Colletet, the monologue that precedes the first act, and the fifth. cf. H.C. Lancaster. A history of French dramatic literature in the seventeenth century. Baltimore, Md., 1929-42, pt. 2, v. 1, p. 99.

Privilege granted to Augustin Courbé, of Paris; "acheué d'imprimer" dated 19 June 1638.

Dedicatory epistle signed: I. Bavdoin.

"Les Tvilleries, monologve": 8th-10th prelim. leaves.