Let's Get a Divorce!

Let's Get a Divorce! (Divorçons!)

    Alternative Title: Let Us Be Divorced!

    Author: Victorien Sardou (with Émile de Najac)

    First Performance: 1880, Paris

    Published: 1883

    First English Translation: 1881

    Genre: Com. in 3 acts; French prose

    Setting: Prunelles' salon and a restaurant, 1870s

    Cast: 6m, 5f, extras

Cyprienne is disappointed in her marriage with Monsieur des Prunelles, and has fallen in love with her cousin Adhémar de Gratignan. If Parliament passes the new law allowing divorce, Cyprienne says that she will seek a divorce at once. She explains her disappointment in marriage: for her husband, who has sown his wild oats, it is a matter of settling down; for the wife, with no adventures to look back on, she seeks excitement in marriage. When a telegram...

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