Volume 15 / Act 4 — MACAIRE
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A MELODRAMATIC FARCE
IN THREE ACTS
PERSONS REPRESENTED
Robert Macaire
Bertrand
Dumont, Landlord of the “Auberge des Adrets”
Charles, a Gendarme, Dumont’s supposed Son
Goriot
The Marquis, Charles’s Father
The Brigadier of Gendarmerie
The Curate
The Notary
A Waiter
Ernestine, Goriot’s Daughter
Aline
Maids, Peasants (Male and Female), Gendarmes
The Scene is laid in the Courtyard of the “Auberge des Adrets,” on the frontier of France and Savoy. The time 1820. The Action occupies an interval of from twelve to fourteen hours; from four in the afternoon till about five in the morning
Note.—The time between the acts should be as brief as possible, and the piece played, where it is merely comic, in a vein of patter