The dispute between  Mademoiselle Clairon, a celebrated actress at Paris, and the Fathers of the Church
Subtitle: occasioned by the excommunication denounced in France against all dramatic writers, actors, singers, dancers, &c. ...
By: said to be written by M. De Voltaire ; printed and published at Paris, and condemned to be burnt, in the Place de Greve, by the common hangman ; translated from the French
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Printed for J. Dodsley, J. Almond, T. Davies, and J. Wilkie
Published: 1768
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Actors; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Conversation de Mr. l'intendent des menus en exercise avec M. l'abbé ***
Notes: "With the reasons for and against that excommunication, in an argument between the Abbé Grizel, on the side of the church, and the Intendant des Menus, or master of the King's revels, in defence of the comedians."

"Done at Paris, the 20th of July, 1761."--P. 40, 2nd count.

Reproduction of the original from the Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Princeton University.