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Hérode et Mariamne or Mariamne is a 1724 tragedy by Voltaire, set in Jerusalem. Year 1724 ( MDCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a François-Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 30 May 1778) better known by the Pen name Voltaire, was a French It was premiered with Lecouvreur as Mariamne, Baron as Herod and Duclos as Salome, but had to be withdrawn after just one performance when the audience gave it a critical reception. Adrienne Lecouvreur ( April 5, 1692 &ndash March 20, 1730) was a French actress. This failure encouraged Nadal to produce his Mariamne in February 1725, but that was also hostilely received, with calls for the return of Voltaire's version of the story. Mariamne is a 1725 French Tragedy by Augustin Nadal based around the Herodian dynasty. Nadal accused Voltaire of ensuring Nadal's play's failure by filling the audience with his supporters, and this led to a bitter war of words between them.

Within months of Nadal's play, Voltaire managed to revise his play (responding to criticisms in the characterisation, he made Herod a more self-doubting and introspective rather than monolithic figure, for example, and moved Mariamne's suicide off-stage) and his cast (changing Herod from Baron to Dufresne). It re-premiered at the Comedie Francaise as Hérode et Mariamne on 25 April 1725. The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few State Theaters in France. Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Year 1725 ( MDCCXXV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a In this form, it proved a success, with two-thirds of all boxes at the theatre pre-booked and crowds besieging the theatre, and thus brought Voltaire back into France's upper cultural echelons. It even proved the subject of the 1725 parody le Mauvais ménage de Voltaire, by Dominique and Legrand. [1]

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