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The events leading to the duel are described. Louis has travelled to Paris to find Emilie de L'Esparre, with whom he has fallen in love. She has married, and he vows to accept the situation; her husband admires Louis' honesty in admitting the past affair, and asks him to protect her while he is away.
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he plays them; preserving a gentlemany demeanour, a drawingroom manner very difficult to assume on the stage, if one may judge from its rarity, which intensifies the passion of the part, and gives it a terrible reality.... The duel between him and Wigan was a masterpiece on both sides; the Bois de
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The play was very successful: it soon ran at other London theatres, and in the following months it opened at the
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