La belle Arsène
Subtitle: comédie-féerie, en quatre actes, melée d'ariettes
By: les paroles de M. Favart ; la musique de M. *** [i.e. Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny]
Contributors: Voltaire, 1694-1778; Favart, M. (Charles-Simon), 1710-1792, librettist; Trial, Marie-Jeanne, 1746-1818, performer; Broulhiet, J. B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1751-1814, bookseller; Longin, abbé, former owner; Milscent, Sophie, former owner; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Au magasin général des pieces de théâtre; Chez Broulhiet, libraire, rue Saint-Rome
Published: 1786
Place of publication: A Toulouse
Language: fre
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Arsenne.; Arsène.
Work titles: Belle Arsène
Notes: Without the music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny; libretto by Favart after Voltaire, La bégueule; first performed at Fontainebleau in the Théâtre de la Cour; first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne; alternate versions of title: Arsenne, Arsène. Cf. Wild.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces.

"Acteurs"--T.p. verso; includes performers; lists Madame Trial in role of Arsène.

Not in Sonneck.

Loewenberg, A.  Annals of opera, col. 332

Wild, N.  Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 210