Vautrin: A Drama in Five Acts

About this eBook

Author

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850

Credits

Produced by Dagny; and John Bickers

Language

English

LoC Class

PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

French drama -- 19th century -- Translations into English

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6861

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6861

Release Date

October 28, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.VAUTRIN A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS — AUTHOR'S PREFACE — PERSONS OF THE PLAY — VAUTRIN — ACT I. — SCENE FIRST. (A room in the house of the Duc de Montsorel.) The Duchesse de Montsorel and Mademoiselle de Vaudrey. — SCENE SECOND. — SCENE THIRD. Mademoiselle de Vaudrey and Felicite. — SCENE FOURTH. — SCENE FIFTH. Joseph and Vautrin. (Vautrin wears a tan-colored overcoat, trimmed with fur, over the black evening dress of a foreign diplomatic minister.) — SCENE SIXTH. — SCENE SEVENTH. — SCENE EIGHTH. The Duchesse de Montsorel and Mademoiselle de Vaudrey. — SCENE NINTH. The same persons, and the Duc de Montsorel (who enters as the duchess pronounces the last sentence). — SCENE TENTH. Mademoiselle de Vaudrey and the Duchess. — ACT II. — SCENE FIRST. (Scene the same as in preceding act.) The Duc de Montsorel and Joseph. — SCENE SECOND. The preceding and Felicite. (To explain his presence in his wife's room, the duke looks over articles lying on the table, and discovers a letter in a book.) — SCENE THIRD. The preceding, and Blondet, alias the Chevalier de Saint-Charles. (Joseph and Saint-Charles walk together from the centre door, and eye each other attentively.) — SCENE FOURTH. The Duke and Saint-Charles. — SCENE FIFTH. The preceding and the Marquis de Montsorel. — SCENE SIXTH. The Duke and the Marquis. — SCENE SEVENTH. The Duke, the Duchess and the Marquis. — SCENE EIGHTH. The same persons and Joseph. — SCENE NINTH. The same persons, the Duchesse de Christoval and the Princesse d'Arjos. — SCENE TENTH. The same persons, Joseph and Raoul de Frescas. — SCENE ELEVENTH. The same persons, except Raoul. — SCENE TWELFTH. The Marquis and the Duke. — SCENE THIRTEENTH. The same persons and Vautrin. (Vautrin is dressed all in black; at the beginning of the scene he puts on an air of compunction and humility.) — ACT III. — SCENE FIRST. (A room in the house of Raoul de Frescas.) — SCENE SECOND. Vautrin and Lafouraille. (Vautrin is dressed in long white duck trousers and a waistcoat of the same material, slippers of red morocco,—the morning dress of a business man.) — SCENE THIRD. The same persons, Buteux, Philosopher and Fil-de-Soie. — SCENE FOURTH. — SCENE FIFTH. Vautrin and Lafouraille. — SCENE SIXTH. Lafouraille and Saint-Charles. — SCENE SEVENTH. — SCENE EIGHTH. Saint-Charles, Vautrin and Lafouraille. (Vautrin wears a bright maroon coat, of old-fashioned cut, with large heavy buttons; his breeches are black silk, as are his stockings. His shoes have gold buckles, his waistcoat is flowered, he wears two watch-chains, his cravat belongs to the time of the Revolution; his wig is white, his face old, keen, withered, dissipated looking. He speaks low, and his voice is cracked.) — SCENE NINTH. Vautrin and Lafouraille. — SCENE TENTH. Vautrin and Raoul de Frescas. — ACT IV. — SCENE FIRST. (Drawing-room of the Duchesse de Christoval.) The Duchesse de Christoval and Inez. — SCENE SECOND. The same persons, a footman and Vautrin. — SCENE THIRD. The Duchess and Vautrin. — SCENE FOURTH. — SCENE FIFTH. Vautrin, the Duchesse de Christoval and Inez. — SCENE SIXTH. The same persons, and Raoul. — SCENE SEVENTH. Inez (standing at the door through which her mother has passed); Raoul (at the other side of the stage). — SCENE EIGHTH The same persons and the Marquis de Montsorel. — SCENE NINTH. The Marquis and Raoul; later, Vautrin. — SCENE TENTH. Raoul, Vautrin, the Marquis and the Duchesse de Montsorel; Later, the Duchesse de Christoval and Inez. — SCENE ELEVENTH. The Duchesse de Christoval, the Duchesse de Montsorel, Raoul and Vautrin. — SCENE TWELFTH. Raoul, Vautrin and later Lafouraille. — ACT V. — SCENE FIRST. (The scene is laid at the Montsorel house, in a room on the ground floor.) — SCENE SECOND. Joseph, Lafouraille and Buteux; later, Vautrin. — SCENE THIRD. — SCENE FOURTH. Joseph and Vautrin. — SCENE FIFTH. — SCENE SIXTH Joseph, a footman; and afterwards Saint-Charles. — SCENE SEVENTH. — SCENE EIGHTH. Saint-Charles, the Duchesse de Montsorel and Mademoiselle de Vaudrey. — SCENE NINTH. The same persons, the Duc de Montsorel and a footman. — SCENE TENTH. The Duchess, Mademoiselle de Vaudrey and Vautrin. — SCENE ELEVENTH. The Duchess and Vautrin. — SCENE TWELFTH. The same persons and Mademoiselle de Vaudrey on one side of the stage, Saint-Charles on the other, and domestics. — SCENE THIRTEENTH. Vautrin and the Duchess. — SCENE FOURTEENTH. The same persons, the Duke, Lafouraille, Buteux, Saint-Charles, and all the domestics. — SCENE FIFTEENTH. The same persons, the Duchesse de Christoval, Inez and Mademoiselle de Vaudrey. — SCENE SIXTEENTH. The same persons, Raoul and Lafouraille. (The last named does not tarry.) — SCENE SEVENTEENTH. The same persons, a police officer, guards and servants.

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