La foire de Besons
Subtitle: comedie
By: de Mr Dancourt
Contributors: Gillier, Jean Claude, 1667-1737, composer; Guillain, Thomas, 1660-1708, printer; Cheri, Armand, former owner; Comédie-Française; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez Thomas Guillain, à la descente du Pont-neuf, prés les Augustins, à l'image S. Louïs.
Published: 1696
Place of publication: A Paris : Chez Thomas Guillain, à la descente du Pont-Neuf, prés les Augustins, à l'Image S. Louïs
Language: fre
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: French drama (Comedy); Dramatic music
Other titles: Airs de la comedie de la Foire de Besons.
Notes: Comedy in 1 act, in prose, with a divertissement with music by J.C. Gillier; first performed at the Théâtre François, Paris, 14 August 1695. Cf. Léris, A. de. Dictionnaire portatif historique et littéraire des théâtres.

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Signatures: A-G⁶ (text); G⁸ (airs).

"Acteurs" without named cast: p. [4].

"Chansons du divertissement" (texts only): p. 79-82 (1st group); "Augmentation des airs de la Comedie de la Foire de Besons" (texts only): p. 83-84 (1st group).

"Airs de la comedie de la Foire de Besons": p. 71-80 (2nd group); "Augmentation des Airs de la Comedie, de la Foire de Besons": p. 81-84 (2nd group); all for solo voice, unacc. with music set with movable type and French words also printed as text.

Tchemerzine, 4. v., p. 251

RISM A/I, G 2053 (airs)