Volume 6 (of 6) 51/61 173, 175.] [Footnote 6256: Id., ibid., pp. (The copy of "Athalie" with the erasures of the police still exists in the prompter's library of the Theatre Francais.)--Id., ibid., p 244. (Letter of the secretary-general of the police to the weekly managers of the Theatre Francais, Feb. 1, 1809, In relation to the "Mort d'Hector," by Luce de Lancival.) "Messieurs, His Excellency, the minister-senator, has expressly charged me to request the suppression of the following lines on the stage--'Hector': Deposez un moment ce fer toujours vainqueur, Cher Hector, et craignez de laisser le bonheur."] [Footnote 6257: Welschinger, ibid., p.13. |