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Le savetier Blondeau [incomplete]

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French
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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker (male) voices this text, which has lost its beginning on account of the record's edge being chipped.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side A of a Sperlings Phonothek disc, No. 7615a. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) Note: Inasmuch as the disc is irreparably damaged, it was deemed not suitable for digitizing.
Contributor: 
Berteaux, Pierre

Souhaits d’auvergnats (and) La conquête des airs [incomplete]

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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker (male) voices these texts. (The beginning of the recording is lost on account of the record's being chipped.)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side B of the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Sperlings Phonothek disc, cat. no. 7615b. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) Note: Inasmuch as the disc is irreparably damaged, it was deemed not suitable for digitizing.
Contributor: 
Bertaux, Pierre

Le mariage de Figaro: Act V, Scene 3 (from “Le Théâtre à Paris” series) [in two parts]

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France
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The catalog number of this disc is (GMS DISC) F.R. 116, and the matrix number of this side is 1031. A mimeographed text of the recording is tucked into the record sleeve. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Dux, Pierre

Poèmes de Paul Claudel: "Quatrième station du Chemin...", etc.

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France
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Native speaker (female) interprets four poems by Claudel.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is the 12-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Pathé disc, cat. no. PAT 27. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Francis, Eve

La voix humaine: Pièce en un acte

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French
Locations: 
France
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“Sociétaire de la Comédie Française” performs the one-act play.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph records are Columbia discs, Nos. DFX 40 and DFX 41. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Bovy, Berthe (Mme)

Menuet, poésie de François Coppée [with musical accompaniment]

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Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Bremont recites the poem with orchestral accompaniment (musical adaptation by Francis Thomé).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side A of the Disque pour Gramophone disc, Cat. No. 31343. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) (Unreviewed) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Bremont, Monsieur [?]

Le Cid: act I, scene 6, (and) act IV, scene 3 ; (from “Le Théâtre à Paris” series)

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French
Locations: 
France
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An “artiste de la Comédie Française” recreates these scenes.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a GMS Disc disc, No. Fr-107. Text is a dittoed sheet of the recording script inserted in the record sleeve. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
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Gros chagrins (G. Courteline)

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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Two French actresses dramatize this scene.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Selmer disc, cat. no. SC38. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE File is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Conte, Louise; and Mony Dalmès

Excerpts from French literature on the Disque pour Gramophone label

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Contributor: 
Gemier, (Monsieur) [?]; Albert Lambert Fils

Le petit Chose (lettre de Jacques à son frère) (A. Daudet)

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Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker (male) (identified as a “lecteur” in the French Department of the University of London) reads this passage (apparently as an exercise in the Sperlings Phonothek language-instruction series).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side B of the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Sperlings Phonothek disc, No. 7609b. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Stéphan, M[onsieur] E.