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Excerpt from the Opening Remarks--"The title of this play gives a sensation of both pain and pleasure.-Fontainbleau was a favourite residence of a number of the French kings, and the spot where the princes of the blood resorted, with all the nobility of the land, when the sports of the field, or the course, were the particular objects of their pastime. Pastime is a word no longer used in the vocabulary of the court of France-Every moment has now its impending cares, and teems with the fate of empires!"