La grande symphonie heroique des punaises
By: paroles de MM. Nadar & Charles Bataille
Contributors: Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910; Bataille, Charles, 1831-1868
Edition: 1. éd.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography
Publisher: Sous les piliers tournants de la vague demeure c'est-a-dire sous les arcades de l'Odéon
Published: 1877
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Grande symphonie heroïque des punaises
Notes: "'La grande symphonie heroïque des punaises, ' an operetta about an epic battle between military men and bedbugs, penned by ... Nadar ... and the writer Charles Bataille, was performed at the home of Jacques Offenbach [who] composed the score for it, recycling some of the music into 'La belle Héléne"--Brulotte, G. The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (2006), vol. 1, p. 1290.

"Pour satisfaire les curieux, on a tiré cene exemplaires sur papier vergé de fil"--Half-title verso.

Reproduction of the original from the George Eastman House Library.