About theater in the Republic Nerval, Bocage and Une nuit blanche

Une nuit blanche, by Nerval, Méry and Paul Bocage (February 1850), has disappeared. The presence in the collection of the music department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France of a score entitled Une nuit blanche, unfortunately devoid of text, prompts a resumption of the investigation around a work victim of censorship under the Republican regime. It helped precipitate the dismissal of the director of the Odéon who had sparked it: the actor Bocage.