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Thermidor
"Thermidor"
also: Тормидор, Termidor
Victorien Sardou's historical drama "Thermidor" (1891), set around the fall of Robespierre; a telegram about the play and the Parisian visitors accompanying its Petersburg vogue tempts Chekhov to rush to Petersburg, a temptation he talks himself out of on practical grounds.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 23 February 1891. Moscow. §3 Your telegram about "Thermidor"
Victorien Sardou's new historical drama "Thermidor," set around Robespierre's fall, was drawing Petersburg's theater world -- Suvorin's telegram about it, and the visiting Parisians accompanying its vogue, briefly tempted Chekhov to drop everything and come, a temptation he argues himself out of over the rest of this same paragraph.