Le Chandelier

[2] In October 1850, it was produced at the Comédie-Française with a cast including Delaunay as Fortunio and Allan as Jacqueline.

In October 1850, the interior minister Léon Faucher had the work banned, a decision confirmed in subsequent seasons.

[3] Jacques Offenbach, who wrote incidental music for the Comédie-Française production, made a sequel entitled La chanson de Fortunio.

An opera of 1907 by André Messager, Fortunio, was based closely on the play.

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