Le faucon
Subtitle: opéra-comique en un acte, en prose mêlée d'ariettes : représenté devant Sa Majesté, à Fontainebleau, le samedi 2 novembre 1771
By: [les paroles sont de M. Sedaine ; la musique de M-- [i.e. Monsigny]]
Contributors: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695; Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre, 1729-1817, composer; Trial, Marie-Jeanne, 1746-1818, performer; Laruette, Jean Louis, 1731-1792, performer; Trial, Antoine, 1737-1795, performer; Ballard, Pierre-Robert-Christophe, 1744-1812, printer; Château de Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: De l'imprimerie de Pierre-Robert-Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur pour la musique de la chambre, & Menus-Plaisirs du roi, & seul imprimeur de la grande chapelle de Sa Majesté
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Faucon
Notes: Libretto by Sedaine after a tale by Jean de La Fontaine; without the music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny; first performed at Fontainebleau in the Théâtre de la Cour. Cf. Wild.

Statements of responsibility from t.p. verso.

"Personnages": p. [3] (1st count); includes performers; lists Mme Trial in role of Clitie, M. la Ruette [i.e. Laruette] in role of Pierre Picolet, M. Trial in role of Jacques Picolet.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initial; head-piece on p. [1] (2nd count) signed N.

Signatures: pi² A-G⁴ H²(-H2).

Last p. blank.

Not in Sonneck.

Clément & Larousse.  Dictionnaire des opéras, p. 430

Wild, N.  Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 713