Pansies . THEATRICALS.
Mademoiselle Dupont, a celebrated actress in high comedy, who made her debilt at the Theatre Francais in 1810 and retired in 1840, reap- peared last week on the occasion of her benefit, and played "Dorine " in Tartufe, and "Madame Abraham" in L'Ecole des Bourgeois. The cha- racter of " Madame Abraham" is that of a wealthy upstart, who in the midst of her riches gives evidence of her lowly origin ; and the play in which she figures may be regarded as a literary curiosity. Its author was the Abbe Soulas d'Allainval, an unfortunate dramatist, who passed his life in misery, and died of apoplexy in 1753. In the year of its first production, 1728, it was only played seven times; and it was not till the celebrated Fleury took it up, and acted one of the principal parts, that it became a piece du repertoire. Fleury's part, the Marquis de Moncade, was played last week by M. Bressant.
The season of the Italian Opera terminated on Saturday last.
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