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‘application’, 187 character of Masaniello, 21, 45–6, 50–4 Achard, Pierre-Frédéric, 96 comparison of the performances of Adam, Adolphe, 172 Nourrit and Duprez, 52–4 Agincourt, Battle of, 115, 116, 118, 135, 137, fusion of Masaniello and Fenella, 30–7 147, 151 influence at other theatres, 42–4 Agulhon, Maurice, 10 Parisienne, La, 50, 128, 135 Allegri, Gregorio, 88, 90 audiences at the Opéra, 5, 6, 7–8, 20, 42, 51, Miserere, 88 54, 71, 73, 109 Anderson, Benedict, 230 Annales School, 15 Baillot, Pierre, 108 Anquetil, Louis-Pierre, Histoire de la romanesca, 90 France, 128 Baini, Giuseppe, Memorie storico-critiche Ardèche, Laurent de l’, Histoire de l’empereur della vita e delle opere di Giovanni Napoléon, 121 Pierluigi da Palestrina, 88 Armstrong, Alan, 240, 246, 248 Baker, Keith, 243 Auber, Daniel, 1, 3, 18, 30, 45, 50, 56, 59, 67, Ballanche, Pierre-Simon, 157, 158, 171 71, 75, 77, 82 bals masqués at the Opéra, 74 Ça ira, 71 Bann, Stephen, 192, 222 Gustave III, ou Le Bal masqué, 3, 12, 17, Barante, Prosper Brugière, baron de, 116 57–82, 83, 145, 151, 181 Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne, 13, 14, Act I divertissement, 61 115, 145 Act V finale, 77–81 Barbès, Armand, 165 ball scene, 18, 59, 67, 73–7, 81–2 Barthes, Roland, 15 ball scene and history, 71–3 Batta, Aléxandre, 108 character of Arvedson, 63–4 Bazard, Pierre, 85 character of Gustave, 60–1 Bell, David, 235 parallels with Louis-Philippe’s reign, Bellini, Vincenzo, 96, 98 69–70 I puritani, 96 the unfolding of fate, 63–9 Berenson, Edward, 86 La Muette de Portici, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 17–18, Berlioz, Hector, 53, 103, 108, 253 19, 20–56, 59, 77, 81, 83, 109, 141, 145, Benvenuto Cellini, 53, 223 151, 156, 160, 162, 175, 179, 180, Berry, duc de, assassination of, 70, 73 181, 182 Berry, duchesse de, 69 1837 revival, 51–5 Bien, David, 183 Act I finale, 38 Blanc, Louis, Histoire de la révolution, 158 Act II duet, ‘Mieux vaut mourir’, 30, 45, Blanchard, Henri, 134, 135 50, 51, 57 Blanqui, Louis, 158, 165 Act II finale, 46 Blaze de Bury, Henri, 50 Act II, Scene iv, 30–7 Boieldieu, François-Adrien, La Dame Act IV, Scene iii, 38 blanche, 23 Act V finale, 40–1 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 49, 51, 72, 73, 120, 121, and the popular voice, 44–50 122–3, 151, 155, 159, 214 character of Fenella, 21, 26–9, 54–5 Bonnet, Charles, 157

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Bourdelot, Pierre Crosten, William, 3, 6, 187 Histoire de la musique et de ses effets, 83, 92, 100, 105 Dahlhaus, Carl, 159–60 Brémond, Hippolyte, 164 Dalayrac, Nicolas, Les Deux mots, 42 Brooks, Peter, 200 Damrémont, General, 108 Brown, John, The Northern Courts, 59, 60 David, Jacques-Louis, 172 Buchez, Philippe, 157 David, Jules, 128 Burette, Théodore,128 Defauconpret, A.J.B., 21 Burke, Edmund, 175 Delavigne, Casimir Charles VI, 18, 114, 115, 118, 122, 125, 151 Ça ira. see Auber, Daniel La Parisienne, 128 Cabet, Etienne, 157, 158, 164, 171 Delavigne, Germain, 45 Voyage et aventures de lord William Charles VI, 18, 114, 115, 118, 151 Carisdall en Icarie, 157 La Muette de Portici, 7, 20, 28, 29, 30 Calhoun, Craig, 156 Deschamps, Emile, Stradella, 18, 98, 104 Carafa, Michele, Masaniello, 28, 44, 48 Döhring, Sieghart, 178 Carlyle, Thomas,History of the French Donizetti, Gaetano Revolution, 159 La Favorite, 53 Castellan, Jeanne-Anaïs, 164 Les Martyrs, 53 Castil-Blaze [François-Henri-Joseph Blaze], Lucie de Lammermoor, 3 50, 51 Doré, Gustave, 74 Catholicism. see religion during the July Dupin, Jean-Henri, La Muette du Port Bercy, Monarchy 42, 43, 44 censorship, 7, 21, 28–9, 52, 54, 59, 114, Duponchel, Henri, 184 121, 180 Duprez, Gilbert, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 94, 98, 109, chanson, 127–43 111, 181, 223 Charlemagne, 114, 120, 128, 146, 147, 151 Charles VI, 114, 115–17, 145 Ellis, Katharine, 129, 221, 224 plays on the story of, 230 Elssler, Fanny, 54, 55 Charles VI. see Halévy, Fromental Enfantin, Prosper, 85 Charles X, 6, 9, 10, 57, 174 Escudier, Léon, 104, 118, 127, 144 Charlton, David, 186 Esquiros, Alphonse, L’Evangile du peuple, 157 Chartier, Alain, 129 Euzet, Gustave, 164 Chateaubriand, François René de, 22 Génie du christianisme, 87 Falcon, Cornélie, 108 Chatel, Abbé, 86 Fétis, François-Joseph, 83, 84, 89, 90, 105, Chelard, Hippolyte, Macbeth, 3 111, 113 Chénier, André, Le Jeu de Paume, 46 ‘air d’église’, 83, 84, 85, 105, 218 Cherubini, Luigi concerts historiques, 83, 84 Ali Baba, 3 Flotow, Friedrich, 90 Médée, 175 Stradella, 84, 85, 90, 93–8, 105, 109, 113 Choron, Etienne, 89 Fourier, Charles, 157, 158 Ciceri, Pierre-Luc-Charles, 48 Fried, Michael, 38 Clark, Maribeth, 58, 205 Froissart, Jean, 115 Collingham, H.A.C., 10, 11, 192, 219 Fulcher, Jane, 6, 128 Comité de mise en scène, 8 Furet, François, 193 communism, 164, 165, 241 Comte, Auguste, 124 Garratt, James, 88–89 Considérant, Victor, 157, 164, 165 Gautier, Théophile,133 , 164, 206 Coudroy, Marie-Hélène, 240 Gerhard, Anselm, 2, 3, 6–7, 27, 90–1, 172, Cousin, Victor, 15, 63, 250 240, 248 Coxe, William, 59, 60 Gildea, Robert, 10, 124 Crossley, Ceri, 235 Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 1, 253

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 23 Janin, Jules, 60, 77 Faust, 64, 183 ‘Stradella, ou Le Poète et le musicien’, 84, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 198 85, 91–3, 96, 105 Gounod, Charles, 183 Joan of Arc, 15, 114, 117, 118, 122, 123–4, Gozlan, Léon, Il était une fois un roi et 125, 126, 127, 134, 146, 151, 162, une reine [La Main droite et la main 166, 181 gauche], 121 Jullien, Louis, 250 grand opera July Monarchy, scholarship on the, 9–12 and history, 2, 7, 12–13, 16–19 Juvénal des Ursins, Jean, 115 definitions of,2 –7 Greek War of Independence, 204 Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgment, 175 Grisi, Giulia, 108 Kastner, Georges, 160, 169 Gueymard, Louis, 164 Kroen, Sheryl, 11–12, 189, 190, 201 Guizot, François, 10, 11, 14, 15, 114, 120, 121, 122, 155 La Rochefoucauld, Louis-François Sosthène, Histoire de la civilisation en France, 15 vicomte de, 52 Histoire de la révolution d’Angleterre, 15 Lacombe, Hervé, 182, 184 Gustaf III, 59–60, 72 Lacordaire, Abbé de, 86, 105–7, 113 Gustaf Wasa, 61 Ladet, Ulysse, 128, 151 Gustave III. see Auber, Daniel Lamartine, Alphonse de, Histoire des Girondins, 158 Haar, James, 224 Lamennais, Abbé, 86, 107, 157 Halévy, Fromental, 3, 118, 128, 151, 182, 253 Le Livre du peuple, 86 Charles VI, 18–19, 114–52, 179, 181 Les Paroles d’un croyant, 86 ‘Chaque soir, Jeanne sur la plage’, 134 Langlois, Jérôme-Martin, 121 ‘A minuit’ (virelai), 134 Las Cases, Emmanuel [comte de], Mémorial ‘A toi France chérie!’, 141–2, 143 de Sainte-Hélène, 72 Act V finale, 126 Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre, 158 card duet, 145–51 Lemercier, Népomucène, 117 character of Odette, 117, 118, 124–7 La Démence de Charles VI, 115, 117 ‘Guerre aux tyrans’, 114, 121–2, 134–41, Lenoir, Alexandre, 87 143, 236 Leroux, Pierre, 164, 165, 242 ‘Quand le soleil’ (villanelle), 129–34 Les Immortels [anon.], 44 Guido et Ginevra, 53, 223, 224 Letellier, Robert Ignatius, 251 La Juive, 2, 7, 53, 108, 153 Levasseur, Nicolas, 164 La Magicienne, 182 Liszt, Franz, 96, 107, 108 La Reine de Chypre, 12 Louis XIII, 72 Le Juif errant, 182 Louis XIV, 71 Hallman, Diana, 7, 8, 17, 91, 182, 253 Louis XV, 72 Hausfater, Dominique, 89–90, 221 Louis XVI, 72 Heine, Heinrich, 91 Louis-Napoleon, 11, 54, 154, 155, 177 Hérold, Ferdinand, Zampa, 92 Louis-Philippe, 6, 49, 51, 52, 69, 70, 71, 72, historical spectacles, 14 73, 85, 115, 120, 122, 123, 126, 145, 151, historiography, 2, 13–16, 18, 62–3, 145, 154, 154, 155 181, 183 assassination attempts on, 54, 69–70 Hoffmann, E.T.A., 88 Lyons, Martyn, 232 Huebner, Steven, 8, 182–83 Huet, Marie-Hélène, 244 magnetism, 248 Hugo, Victor, 23, 123 Maréchal, Sylvain, Le Jugement dernier des Notre-Dame de Paris, 87 rois, 46 Hunt, Lynn, 75 Marianne, 127, 202, 206 Jacobins, 11, 72, 155, 158, 177 Marié, Mécène, 111 Janequin, Clément, ‘La bataille’, 129, 146 Marie-Antoinette, 72

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Marrinan, Michael, 122–3 Mickiewicz, Adam, 159, 160 Marseillaise, La. see Rouget de Lisle, Middle Ages, 15, 87, 88, 90, 92, 95, 106, 113, Claude-Joseph 114, 129, 144 Martignac, Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gay, Mignet, François, Histoire de la révolution vicomte de, 52 française, 62 Martin, Henri, 124 Mitzman, Arthur, 15 Histoire de France, 57, 117 Molière [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin], Tartuffe, Martin, John, 174 11, 231 Massenet, Jules Le Cid, 183 Mongrédien, Jean, 108 McCallam, David, 46, 175 Monnais, Edouard, 184 McCready, Anna, 6, 58, 73 Monnier, Edouard, 1 Méhul, Etienne-Nicolas, Chant de départ, 162 Monstrelet, Enguerrand de, 115 Mellon, Stanley, 13 Moskova, Joseph Napoléon Ney, Prince de melodrama, influence of,1 , 2, 9, 23, 26, 30, 37, la, 129 40, 48, 77, 167, 173–7, 183 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 89 Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 124 Muette de Portici, La. see Auber, Daniel Merle, J.T., 128 Musée de l’histoire de France, 15, 122 Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 3, 16, 51, 92, 153, 154, 156, 160, 162, 163, 164, 165, 171 national identity, 10, 14, 18–19, 55, 67, 76, 81, Le Prophète, 3, 12, 17, 113, 153–79, 181, 182, 86, 114, 122, 123–4, 126–7, 129, 142–3 183 Niboyet, Eugènie, 164 ‘Eternel Dieu sauveur’, 164 Niedermeyer, Louis, 109 ‘O roi des cieux’, 162 Stradella, 12, 17, 18, 85, 92, 98–109, 111, 151, ‘Par toi Munster nous fut promis’, 163 181, 225 Act V finale, 156, 173–7 ‘A l’heure suprême’, 109–11 character of Jean, 156, 165–9, 246 ‘Voyageur à qui Venise se dévoile’ coronation scene, 156, 167 (barcarole), 109–11 dream scene, 166–71 Act III finale (church scene), 99–108 ‘Du sang!’, 163 and religion during the July Monarchy, Hymne triomphale, 171–3 98–109 parallels with contemporary politics, five- and three-act versions, 217, 228 164–5 Noblet, Lise, 54, 55 Prêche, 160–2 Nourrit, Adolphe, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 108, 109 role of the chorus, 160–4 Les Huguenots, 3, 5, 6, 53, 90–1, 108, 153, Opéra, Paris, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 28, 29, 50, 59, 70, 94, 160, 182 153, 165, 184, 253 Robert le diable, 2, 53, 108, 222 Ortigue, Joseph d’, 89, 183, 222, 242 Michelant, Louis, Faits mémorables de Ozouf, Mona, 202 l’histoire de France, 117, 121 Michelet, Jules, 15–16, 18, 56, 58, 76, 81, 88, Pacini, Emilien, Stradella, 18, 98 115, 128, 145, 152, 158, 177–9, 183 Pacini, Giovanni, L’ultimo giorno di Pompeïa, Histoire de France, 87, 116, 124 48 Histoire de la révolution française, 75, 81, Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 85, 88–90, 144, 159, 178 93, 95, 96, 97 Introduction à l’histoire universelle, 63, 143 palingenesis, 157, 158, 166, 171 Le Peuple, 86, 159 Palmerston, Lord, 120 Mémoires de Luther, 154 Parisienne, La. see Auber, Daniel on Joan of Arc, 123–4 Pendle, Karin, 186 on national identity, 18, 143–4 people, the, operatic representations of, 3, 5, on revolution, 58, 88, 72, 75–6, 82, 145 44–50, 64, 107, 133, 137–41, 159–64 on the people, 159 Pilbeam, Pamela, 10, 11, 192, 248 on Vico, 15, 63, 115, 143–4, 159 Pillet, Léon, 184 Précis de l’histoire moderne, 87 Pixérécourt, René Charles Guilbert de

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La Citerne, 175 Rubini, Giovanni Battista, 96, 98, 108 La Tête de mort, ou Les Ruines de Pompéïa, 48–9 Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 62 plainchant, 63, 89, 90, 94, 95, 102, 160 Saint-Ouën, Laure Bœn de, Histoire de la Pottinger, Mark, 12, 58, 84, 154, 186 France, 117 Prophète, Le. see Meyerbeer, Giacomo Saint-Saëns, Camille, 183 Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 164, 165 Saint-Simonianism, 86, 105, 113, 157 Salvandry, Narcisse de, 49 Quélen, Monseigneur, 89 Sardanapalus, 165, 174, 250 Quicherat, Jules, 15, 50, 124 Scarlatti, Alessandro, 84, 90 Quinet, Edgar, 1815 et 1840, 120 Schiller, Friedrich Die Jungfrau von Orleans, 124, 154, 166 Rachel [Elisa Félix], 105 Wallensteins Lager, 154 Raspail, François-Vincent, 165 Schlesinger, Maurice, 91, 121 Redon, Maxime de, La Muette, 44 Schumann, Robert, 91, 268 Reid, Martine, 11 Scott, Walter, 14, 17, 20, 21–6, 26–8, 37, 43, 44, religion during the July Monarchy, 85–7, 55, 56, 196, 197, 252 157–8 Heart of Midlothian, 23 Renaissance, 85, 87–8, 90, 113 Ivanhoe, 14 republicanism during the July Monarchy, 11, Old Mortality, 154 156–59 Peveril of the Peak, 28 Restoration, scholarship on the, 9–10 Scribe, Eugène, 2, 6, 7, 23, 37, 45, 249 Revolution of 1789 Gustave III; ou le bal masqué, 18, 56, 58, 59, and chanson, 128–9 60, 71, 77, 81, 82 and Gustave III, 72, 76–7, 81 La Dame blanche, 23 and La Muette de Portici, 17–18, 20–1, 27, La Muette de Portici, 7, 20, 28, 29, 30 28–9, 41–2, 45, 46–50, 55 Le Prophète, 153, 154, 163, 164, and Le Prophète, 160–4, 169–73, 175 165–6, 171 as understood in the 1840s, 154–5, 157–9, Yelva, ou l’orpheline russe, 42, 43 175 Scudo, Paul, 165 scholarship on, 13, 62, 75–6 Shakespeare, William, 23 Revolution of 1830 (Belgian), 5 Hamlet, 183 Revolution of 1830 (July Revolution) Macbeth, 22, 64, see also Chelard, and Gustave III, 76–7 Hippolyte; Verdi, Giuseppe and La Muette de Portici, 50–1, 51–4 Shaw, Henry, 27, 55 scholarship on, 9, 15, 63 Smart, Mary Ann, 9, 75, 206 Revolution of 1848 Société de l’histoire de France, 14–15 and Le Prophète, 19, 154, 164–5 Solomé, Louis Jacques, 8 scholarship on, 9 Spitzer, Alan, 13, 192 Robespierre, Maximilien de, 51, 72, 155, 157, Spontini, Gaspare, 1, 221, 253 158, 159, 243, 244 Stradella, see Niedermeyer, Louis Rodrigues, Olinde, 85 Stradella, Alessandro, 83, 84, 88, 90, 92, Roger, Gustave, 164 98, 111 Roqueplan, Nestor, 184 sublime, 89, 100, 107, 108, 156, 160, 173–7, Rossini, Gioachino, 1, 3, 20, 51, 108 179, 181, 250 Guillaume Tell, 2, 51, 53 sublime martinesque, 174 Le Siège de Corinthe, 1, 3, 50 Sue, Eugène, Les Pontons anglais, 121 Moïse, 1 Sykes, Ingrid, 96 Rouget de Lisle, Claude-Joseph, 139 Marseillaise, La, 45, 50, 91, 121, 128, 129, tableau, 2, 9, 20, 23, 38, 49, 75, 121, 175, 177, 135, 141, 162, 222 181, 250 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 155 Taglioni, Filippo, 74 Royer, 28, 29 Tamburini, Antonio, 108

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Terror, 42, 62, 81, 145, 155, 156, 158, 159, 171, Viardot, Pauline, 164 177, 181 Vico, Giambattista. See Michelet, Jules Thibaut, A.F.J., 88 Viel, Edouard, 172 Thierry, Augustin, 14, 20, 63 Vigny, Alfred de, 44 Histoire de la conquête de l’Angleterre par Villemain, Abel-François, 15 les Normands, 13 Vinchon, Auguste, 126 Thiers, Adolphe, 10, 54, 62, 120, 122, 123 Vitet, Ludovic, 71, 72, 74, 141 Histoire de la révolution française, 62 volcanoes, 175, see also Vesuvius Tocqueville, Alexis de, Souvenirs Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet], Essai sur de 1848, 154 les mœurs, 88, 154

ultramontanism. see religion during the July Wagner, Richard, 3, 6, 9, 45, 50, 75, 253 Monarchy Wangermée, Robert, 222 utopian socialism, 157–8, 166, 178, 243 Waterloo, Battle of, 120, 121, 180 Weber, Carl Maria von, 1 Verdi, Giuseppe, 3, 182 Der Freischütz, 64 Macbeth, 183 Euryanthe, 3 Un ballo in maschera, 208 Welsh, Alexander, 26–7, 30, 55 Vernet, Horace, 123 White, Hayden, 191 Véron, Louis, 59, 70, 71 White, Nicholas, 114 Vesuvius, 20, 27, 40, 41, 46–9 Wright, Beth Segal, 128, 141