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Les deux pigeons (and) L’alouette et ses enfants avec un maître d’un champs

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French
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French
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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
“Sociétaire de la Comédie Française” recites the two fables.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Lumen disc, No. 35.008, and the matrix numbers are M6-82075 and M682076. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Bertin, Pierre

Le chien (Poésie de Lamartine); Le chien (Poésie de Lamartine); Le chien (Poésie de Lamartine); The dog (Poetry of de Lamartine); The dog (Poetry of de Lamartine)

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“Sociétaire de la Comédie Française” recites the poem.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side A of an Odéon disc, No. 171.101, and the matrix number is XXP 69571. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Monteaux, Roger

Le duel: final scene of Act II

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France
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Two actors from the Comédie Française perform the scene;from the play.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is an Odéon disc, No. 171.020, and the matrix numbers are: XXP 7290-1 and XXP7291-1. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Alexandre, (M. [?]); and Roger Monteaux

L’Africaine (ballade): “Adamastor, roi des vagues”

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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
D’Assy sings the aria, accompanied by (unnamed) chorus;and orchestra.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side B of the Disque pour Gramophone disc, Cat. No. 032162. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
D'Assy, Pierre

Les affaires sont les affaires: Two scenes on phonograph discs

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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
M. de Féraudy (“Sociétaire de la Comédie Française”) recreates these scenes.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph records are the two 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Pathé discs, cat. nos. X.93003 and X.93004. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Féraudy, Maurice de

L'École des femmes: Act II, scene 6: “La promenade est belle” [in two parts]

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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Two French actors (a man and a woman) recreate this scene from the classic comedy.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is the 12-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Decca disc, cat. no. G-25947. It is a re-issue of an Odéon-Parlophone pressing made in France. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Bovy, Berthe; and Léon Bernard

Le bourgeois gentilhomme: Acte III, sc. 12 &13

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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
A man and a woman (from the French Department, University of London) recreate these scenes from the classic play (apparently as an exercise in the Sperlings Phonothek language-instruction series). (Note: At the beginning of the recording the male speaker says "scènes douze et treize".)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side A of the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Sperlings Phonothek disc, No. 7603a. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Stéphan, M[onsieur] E.; and Mlle. H. Coustenoble

Le malade imaginaire: comédie complète en quatorze disques

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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Unnamed troupe performs the play.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record (a Disque Pathé disc, No. 1699), is apparently the sixth disc in the set of 14. [The LA has no other discs in the set.] (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Messieurs Granval, Lafon, Alexandre, Guilhène, Bernard, Gerbault, Falconnier, Dufresne; Mesdames Fayolle (and) Bovy; Mesdemoiselles de Chauveron (and) Bourdin

Le malade imaginaire: Act I, scene 1

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Collection Descriptive Notes: 
“Sociétaire de la Comédie Française” performs the first scene of the play.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Selmer disc, No. SC 25. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Seigner, Louis

Le malade imaginaire: Act III, scene 10: La consultation (in two parts)

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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
A male and a female actor from the Comédie-Française recreate this scene from the play.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Selmer disc, cat. no. SC24. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Dussane, B.; and L. Seigner