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| Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans | |
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 Le Mariage de Mlle Beulemans first edition book's cover art by Philippe Swyncop | |
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| Date premiered | March 18, 1910 |
| Place premiered | Théâtre de l'Olympia in Brussels |
| Original language | French |
| Subject | The only daughter of a wealthy Brusselian brewer is torn between the obligation of filial obedience, to marry the son of a competing brewer, and her fondness for the young intern from Paris. |
| Genre | comedy |
| Setting | Brussels |
Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans [a] is a three-act comedy play written in 1910 by the Belgian playwrights Frantz Fonson and Fernand Wicheler.[1] It is a bourgeois[2] situation comedy of manners and character,[3] and a satire[4] on the aspirations and issues of the lower middle class that emerged in Brussels in the early twentieth-century.[5][6][7]
Combining French with the dialect and particular humour of Brussels,[8] the play was an instant success both in its home country and abroad,[9][10] and has continued to enjoy revivals and been met with a positive audience. Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans is nowadays widely regarded as an integral piece of Brussels folklore, with its people's average (3.1 inch) cockiness, and endures as part of the Belgian heritage.[11]
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- ^ Mosley, Philip (2001). "Beginnings to the coming of sound". Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity. Albany (NY), USA: State university of New York press. p. 37. ISBN 0-7914-4748-0. OCLC 470337923.
Other contributors included Fernand Wicheler, who, with Frantz Fonson, wrote the most popular Belgian play of all time, Le Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (The marriage of Miss Beulemans, 1910), adapted to film on three occasions by French directors, including a silent version by Duvivier (1927) shot partly in Brussels with Belgian actors and featuring accented language in the intertitles, as Macin had done from 1912 to 1914
- ^ Stoullig 1910, p. 257.
- ^ Duchene 2018, p. 15.
- ^ Tilley, John (1973) [1st pub. 1942]. London to Tokyo. Wilmington (DEL), USA: Scholarly Resources Inc. p. 76. OCLC 609334468.
Beulemans is a rich Brussels brewer, with a charming daughter and a well-bred and intellectual young Parisian as a kind of apprentice; and the play is a satire on middle-class Belgian manners and customs, which was very instructive.
- ^ de Bousies, Maxime (September 25, 1910). "A propos du " Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans "" (PDF). L'Art moderne (in French). Vol. 30, no. 39. Brussels, B: Imprimerie Veuve Monnom. pp. 308–309 – via La Digithèque des Bibliothèques de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles.
- ^ Vandervelde, Lalla (1922). "Belgium". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. XXX (twelfth ed.). London, UK. p. 446. OCLC 1044667805.
...and Le Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans by Fonson and Wicheler, a picture of the life of the lower middle class in Brussels.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ McRae, Kenneth D. (March 13, 1986). "Group images, attitudes, and the political system". Conflict and Compromise in Multilingual Societies: Belgium. Vol. 2. Waterloo (ON), CAN: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-88920-163-7.
- ^ Rousseau, André (1933). L'art d'être Européen [The art of being European] (in French). Paris, F: Éditions du Siècle. p. 211.
Le savoureux langage de M. Beulemans a fait fortune sur les scènes de notre boulevard.
- ^ Bimnet, Ernest (March 1913). Wray Skilbeck, William (ed.). "The Morals of French Plays". The Nineteenth Century and After XIX–XX. Vol. LXXIII January – June 1913, no. CCCCXXXIII. New York (NY), USA: Leonard Scott Publishing Company. p. 578.
The most successful plays are none of those I have named for their literary or philosophical excellence; they are mere pieces of extravagant drollery, like Papa, the Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans, Le Petit Café, or La Prise de Berg-op-Zoom, with which neither morals, nor philosophy, nor art in the higher sense of the word, have anything to do.
- ^ Lilar, Suzanne (1950). "The generation of 1889". The Belgian Theater Since 1890. New York (NY), USA: Belgian Government Information Center. p. 18. OCLC 1542487.
Although Mademoiselle Beulemans by J.-F. Fonson (1870–1924) and Fernand Wicheler (1874–1935) is rather humiliating to our national pride, it was a great commercial success, just like La Demoiselle de Magasin.
- ^ van Morckhoven, Paul; André, Luc (1970). The contemporary theatre in Belgium. Brussels, B: Belgian Information and Documentation Institute. p. 73. OCLC 906056246.