Excerpt from Le Juif Polonais: Edited With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary
In 1869 they had ready for the stage a piece called in which the tortures of conscience were dramatically described, and offered it to theatrical man agers. It was finally put on at the Cluny Theatre in Paris, and met with immediate success.
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