Mormons in Paris

CORRY CROPPER is a professor of French at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His book Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France examines French literary representations of sports and games. He has also published on nineteenth-century Fantastic literature, and on cycling, gambling, and poaching in French fiction.CHRISTOPHER M. FLOOD is an assistant professor of French at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research focuses on the unique insights offered by comedies and satires into the contexts that produced them. He has previously published on medieval and early modern political and religious satires.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter 1: Mormons in ParisLouis Leroy and Alfred DelacourChapter 2: Berthelier Meets the MormonsChapter 3: Japheth’s Twelve WivesAntony Mars and Maurice DesvalliÈresChapter 4: Stephana’s JewelArthur BernÈde and Albert DubarryAcknowledgementsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

"Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." - Susan McCready (author of Staging France between the World Wars) "This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." - Andrea Goulet (co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics) "Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." - Susan McCready (author of Staging France between the World Wars) "This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." - Andrea Goulet (co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics)