L'Arlésienne
Young Provençal peasant Fréderi loves a woman from Arles, but learns of her infidelity before their wedding. His family tries to save him as he approaches madness, but he ultimately dies by suicide.
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Young Provençal peasant Fréderi loves a woman from Arles, but learns of her infidelity before their wedding. His family tries to save him as he approaches madness, but he ultimately dies by suicide.
In this version of Daudet's story, Fanny LeGrand's perspective is foregrounded: she seduces the naïve Jean Gaussin, but ultimately leaves him so he can reform and marry the father of her child. The play's most notorious scene sends the pair up a staircase toward an implied bedroom.
Fanny Legrand, known as Sapho, begins a relationship with the young Jean Gaussin. Jean learns about Fanny’s past, including a child from an earlier relationship, and leaves her. After Jean returns to his family, Fanny visits but departs alone; later, when he returns to their former home and offers to sacrifice his prospects for her, she quietly leaves while he sleeps.
Young Provençal peasant Fréderi loves a woman from Arles, but learns of her infidelity before their wedding. His family tries to save him as he approaches madness, but he ultimately dies by suicide.
In this version of Daudet's story, Fanny LeGrand's perspective is foregrounded: she seduces the naïve Jean Gaussin, but ultimately leaves him so he can reform and marry the father of her child. The play's most notorious scene sends the pair up a staircase toward an implied bedroom.
Fanny Legrand, known as Sapho, begins a relationship with the young Jean Gaussin. Jean learns about Fanny’s past, including a child from an earlier relationship, and leaves her. After Jean returns to his family, Fanny visits but departs alone; later, when he returns to their former home and offers to sacrifice his prospects for her, she quietly leaves while he sleeps.