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Louis Langree

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[Beautiful, elegant music, graceful stage costumesthe first-ever film adaptation of Messagers masterpiece comic opera!] (First-ever film adaptation)Andr, a local notary and prominent figure in town, is constantly worried about the chastity of his beautiful wife, Jacqueline, who is much younger than him. Clavaroche, the new commander of a regiment who has arrived in town, is a notorious womanizer; he immediately sets his sights on Jacqueline and sneaks into her bedroom. Around the same time, Fortunio, an innocent young man from the countryside, arrives at the Andr household as a notarys apprentice and falls in love with Jacqueline at first sight…Messagers *Fortunio*, which premiered at the Opra-Comique in June 1907. Based on the play *The Candlestick* by Musset, a French Romantic poet and writer active in the first half of the 19th century, Messagerwho was then serving as conductor and compos