Claudine-Placide Croizet-Ferreire, known as Mlle VOLNAIS (1786-1837). 5 L.A.S., 1815 and s.d., to Pierre Lafon of the Comédie-Française; 6pages in-8, one on pink paper with embossed border. March 12, 1815. She will be unable to attend the rehearsal of Destouches' Glorieux, "the reason that prevents me from doing so must be very important, since it obliges me to renounce the pleasure of seeing you"... - She asks that the program for Sunday's performance of Voltaire's Alzire and Favart's Trois Sultanes not be changed, as Mlle Duchesnois is returning to school next week, and will therefore no longer be able to play Alzire. - She must play Voltaire's Zaire and Le Cid. She begs Lafon, cast in these two plays, to refuse to play, as she is suffering from foot pain and cannot play until the end of next week. - She asks him to come and see her. - She invites him to spend the evening at her home. Attached is a L.A.S. from Thérèse Bourgoin (1781-1833), about approaches to a duke to obtain reimbursement of her share and an increase in her pension [after her retirement, 1829] (1p. ¼ in-8).