5 MAY 1860, Page 19

PARISIAN THRATRICALS.

At the Opera Comique, there is a new work, composed by M. Govan* to music by MM. Cormon and Michel Carre, With the title Le Chateau Trotupette. That indefatigable roué, the Due de Richelieu, though he has attained his sixtieth year, attempts to decoy into his château the wife of a gentleman of Bordeaux, and finds himself baffled by a girlcif humble origin, who guards her own virtue after she has saved the honour of the lady, in whose apparel she visits the den of the libertine. In England, these tales of intrigue have long ceased to amuse ; but the French still take pleasure in the scandals of the old regime, and no-re- putation seems less likely to fade than that of the wicked old Due de Richelieu.