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"La P .... e F ... e", or La pauvre femme / by Benoît Joseph Marsollier de Vivetières, first printed Paris, 1796 A dramatic play in one act, composed by the author in 1792 from eyewitness accounts presented to the Assemblée nationale legislative, concerning the death of Colonel Mauduit, commander of the regiment at Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue, March 4, 1791. Mauduit's faithful servant, a negro named Domingue, falls on his sword over his master's body. Not mentioned
in the play, however, is the violent circumstances of the treatment of the body of Mauduit after death. The mutilated corpse was dragged through the streets by the citizens of Port-au-Prince and his head was mounted on a bayonette Signatures: A-B C (C4 verso blank) Bookseller's advertisements: p. [1], 2nd group Errata: p. [2], 2nd group John Carter Brown Library copy has blank leaf preceeding title page, not counted in collation, with "an 8 La mort du Col. Mauduit ou les anarchistes au Port au Prince fait hist. 1a" in contemporary ms. hand Provenance of the John Carter Brown Librarycopy: "Donné par lauteur" in contemporary ms. hand on title page
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