PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
La ric de BoUsne, the drama founded on M. Miirgu's celebrated novel of the same name, and written by M. Milrgu himself conjointly with M. T. Barriere, has been revived at the Vaudeville. At the Gymnase there is a modern type of the "Bourgeois Gentil- homme " in the person of Le Baron de Fourcherif, who gives the name to a one-act comedy by MM. Labiehe and A. Jolly. An honest manufac- turer of chinaware has purchased a baronial estate, and assumes lordly manners, in order to keep up his dignity.. His case is so far different from that of H. Jourdain, that his wife encourages, instead of checking his aristocratic propensities, but he is at last glad to abandon his trouble- some rank.
A slight vaudeville by MM. Clairvill and J. Cudin has been brought out at the Palais Royal, with the title Le Banquet des Barbettes. The plot is a mere nothing, but the piece exhibits an agreeable social picture,—the annual meeting of a number of young women, who have been " hands " at one establishment, and who, though they are now in various grades of life, drop all differences once a year, and join in a merry party. These are designated " Barbettes."
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