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of double use, as they keep off the
crowd behind, and support those who
fill them.
This theatre is not so large as that at
Lyons, but pretty, and capable of hold-
ing much company: it is of an oblong
form, with the corners rounded off.
There are no galleries in it, but then
there are five rows of boxes, one above
another, twenty-four in each row; and
each box will contain six persons, amount-
ing in all to seven hundred and twenty;
there is one stage-box only on each side.
The farce was truly what it promised,
except the laughing part, as it did not
produce that effect. The intermezzo was
not bad; the music pretty, but old; the
singing very indifferent, for Italy, though
it would have been very good in France.
However, it is but just to say, that as dra-
mas, the French comic operas have
greatly the advantage over the Italian;
take away the music from the French,
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