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adopt on the play-bill. Under no circumstances can I allow that of Élisa to appear."

"Do you like the name of Rachel better?" asked the young girl.

"I should think so. It is the very thing! Keep to that."

On the 1st May 1837 Mademoiselle Rachel Félix was announced to appear on the stage of the Gymnase Theatre in a new play in two acts called La Vendéene, written for her by Paul Duport.