La grande symphonie heroïque des punaises
By: paroles de MM. Nadar & Charles Bataille
Contributors: Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910; Bataille, Charles, 1831-1868
Edition: 1. éd.
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
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Librettos; Operas
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.