Marie-Françoise Marchand, Mademoiselle DUMESNIL (1713-1803). L.A.S., February 6, 1774, to the semainiers de la Comédie Française, "aux Thuilleries"; 1page in-4, addressed. As a result of "a collique which holds me very strongly and for which it is necessary to keep warm", she is unable to attend the rehearsal of Électre [by Crébillon. Between 1773 and 1782, the Comédie-Française was housed in the Salle des Machines at the Château des Tuileries, during construction of its new theatre, the present-day Odéon].