"ENTREPRISE THÉATRALE". Letter signed GOBERT "L'Entrepreneur - Lot 404

"ENTREPRISE THÉATRALE". Letter signed GOBERT "L'Entrepreneur de Spectacle, fondé de pouvoir de Mr DUPUIS, Breveté de Son Excellence le Ministre de l'Intérieur pour les 1er et 25e Arrondissements." (Printed on letterhead) - LUNÉVILLE (Meurthe-et-Moselle) Sept 23, 1810 - to Mr Claude de LAUNOY (sic LAUNOIS) Mayor of ÉPINAL (Vosges) - He thanks him for preventing the troupe of Messrs MODESTE and MELICOURT from performing without his authorization. "I have forbidden them the right to represent any play that has to do with Comedy, Tragedy, Drama, Melodrama and Pantomime, a clause that is becoming very important to me having quantity of pleasant novelties that they could give. I will take the liberty of announcing my arrival."