''Le Chandelier'' () is an 1835 play in three acts by French dramatist

Alfred de Musset Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.His names are often reversed "Louis Charles Alfred de Musset": see "(Louis Charles) Alfred de Musset" (bio), Biography.com, 2007 ...

. The play was first published in 1835 in '' Revue des deux Mondes''. It was first staged at the Théâtre Historique in August 1848 with Mademoiselle Maillet as Jacqueline. In October 1850, it was produced at the Comédie-Française with a cast including Delaunay as Fortunio and Allan as Jacqueline. In October 1850, the interior minister Léon Faucher had the work banned, a decision confirmed in subsequent seasons.Alfred de Musset: Œuvres complètes 'Lorenzaccio; Le Chandelier; Il ne faut jurer de rien'' Charpentier, Paris, 1888.

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...

, who wrote

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for the Comédie-Française production, made a sequel entitled '' La chanson de Fortunio''. An

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of 1907 by André Messager, '' Fortunio'', was based closely on the play.

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