Le deserteur
Subtitle: drame en trois actes, en prose mêlée de musique
By: par M. Sedaine ; la musique par M*** [i.e. Monsigny] ; représentée, pour la premiere fois, par les Comédiens italiens ordinaires du roi, le lundi 6 mars 1769
Contributors: Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre, 1729-1817, composer; Laruette, Jean Louis, 1731-1792, performer; Trial, Antoine, 1737-1795, performer; Hérissant, Claude-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1775, bookseller; Bertheley, François Nicolas Félix, former owner; Mayon, E., former owner; Comédie-Italienne (Paris, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez Claude Herissant, imprimeur-libraire, rue Neuve Notre-Dame, à la Croix d'or
Published: 1769
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Déserteur
Notes: Libretto by Sedaine; without the music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny; first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne. Cf. Wild.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initial.

"Preface": p. [iii]-viij.

"Personnages": p. [1] (1st count); includes performers; lists M. la Ruette [i.e. Laruette] in role of Jean-Louis, M. Trial in role of Bertrand.

Publisher's advertisements: p. [83].

Includes stage directions.

Signatures: pi1 a⁴ A-K⁴ L².

Last p. blank.

Not in Sonneck.

Loewenberg, A.  Annals of opera, col. 305

Wild, N.  Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 517