Le baiser et la quittance

Le baiser et la quittance, ou Une aventure de garnison (The Kiss and the Receipt, or A Garrison Adventure) is an opera by the composers Étienne Méhul, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Nicolas Isouard.

It takes the form of an opéra bouffon in three acts.

It premiered at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 18 June 1803.

The libretto is by Picard, Longchamps and Dieulafoy.

[1] The work was a failure and only ran for four performances.

Méhul in 1799 – portrait by Antoine Gros