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Jean de Paris is the title of a French comic opera with music by François Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834), 'The French Mozart', first performed in Paris in 1812, and the connection between the march and the opera was recently uncovered in a masterly job of sluthing, recorded the 2/95 Rifles Forum [1], from which the following information is derived.

In 1814 Europe was finally at peace; Napoleon had been exiled to Elba, and the English once again could enjoy French culture.

The opera "Jean de Paris" was exported to London, where an adaptation, with music composed by Charles Horn and Samuel Arnold, was staged at Drury Lane Theatre.

It was not a success, despite prodigious talents of the composers. The New Monthly Magazine (vol. 1, 1814, p. 443), warned its readers:

If the success of this piece is adduced as an instance of public taste, we shall be under the necessity of wishing that our theatres were completely closed, and their companies disbanded to follow a better occupation.

However, a rival adaptation of the French opera was being performed at the same time at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden (Nov., 1814), a two-act comic opera "composed and partly selected from the original...by Isaac Pocock, composed and adapted for the English stage by Henry R. Bishop, Composer and Director of music to the Theatre Royal."

The march was found in Act ii, as a "Pastoral Dance." Pocock's and Bishop's version of "John of Paris" did not fare particularly well, either, with the Works of Sir Henry Bishop reporting that Boieldieu's "pretty Overture is omitted, which a dozen uninteresting numbers by Bishop are inserted...", the exception being the tune that became known in England as "John of Paris."

...more at: John_of_Paris - full Score(s) and Annotations

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-|f_track=The Kings Head.mp3
+|f_track=Jean de Paris Overture.mp3
-|f_pdf=The Kings Head.pdf
+|f_pdf=John of Paris.pdf
-|f_artwork=Armstrong.jpg
+|f_artwork=Léon_Riesener_-_Portrait_de_François-Adrien_Boieldieu.jpg
-|f_tune_name=The King's Head
+|f_tune_name=John_of_Paris
-|f_track_title=King's_Head_(1)_(The)
+|f_track_title=John_of_Paris
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-|f_played_by=[https://www.slippery-hill.com/source/tom-owens-wls-barn-dance-trio Tom Owens WLS Barn Dance Trio]
+|f_played_by=[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ92AnH2_pgr0e9HTZQeYGQ Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana]
-|f_notes=Mrs. Sarah Armstrong
+|f_notes=Léon Riesener - Portrait de François-Adrien Boieldieu
-|f_caption=Despite the story of the condemned man, the title probably has more to do with its association to the alternate titles Soldier's Joy (1) and Payday in the Army.
+|f_caption=The girls go by and they wink one eye,{{break}}
-|f_source=[https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/kings-head Slippery Hill]
+It's will you marry me? No, not I;{{break}}
+I'm ninety-five, I'm ninety five,{{break}}
+And to stay single I'll contrive.{{break}}
+|f_source=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ns3mDWmFIM Youtube]
 |f_pix=420
 |f_picpix=200
-|f_article=[[King's_Head_(1)_(The) | '''The King's Head''']]
+|f_article=[[John_of_Paris | '''John_of_Paris''']]
-The King's Head was the name of many taverns in England, referred to from the 16th century on. One famous King's Head was in Southwark, an area that featured a competing establishment called The Queen's Head. Another King's Head inn at the corner of Chancery Lane, dating from the time of Edward VI, was the residence of Izaak Walton and appears in all his illustrated editions of his book The Compleat Anger, which he advertised to be "sold at his shopp in Fleet Street; under the King's Head tavern." Perhaps the oddest story connected to a King's Head establishment was regarding the tavern adjacent to Stationers Hall Court, accessed through a doorway that passersby would scarcely glance at. Through the door was "a long passage, at the end of which was a roomy tavern with quaint corners, and originally known by the sign of  the 'King's Head', at which time it was a fashionable coffee and chop-house. At the beginning of the 19th century the famous fat man, Daniel Lambert, took up his lodgings at this house, and here he held public receptions, at which visitors, for a modest fee, might look upon his fifty-two stone (728 lbs.) of human flesh. For years after Lambert had departed this life his portrait in oils hung upon the tavern walls, and his walking-stick was also preserved as a curiosity" (Hackwood, 1909). Charles Dickens (in '''Household Words''', vol. 12, 1855) writes that pleasure gardens and music halls had to be licensed in London in the last half of the 18th century, a license which had to be renewed annually at the Middlesex quarter sessions (although theatres such as Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Opera House were exempt, as they had special crown-licenses). Not surprisingly, this limited the number of venues. Ones that were licensed were "''Saddler's Wells, which has since grown into a temple of Shakespeare; another was Bagnigge Wells; a third was Rannelagh; while others were Marybone Gardens, the Bell and the Angel at Edmonton, the King's Head at Enfield, the Long Rooms at Hampsted, White Conduit House, Islington Spa, the Adam and Eve tea-garden, the Shepherd and Shepherdess, &c. Some of these had much celebrity in their day''."
+'''Jean de Paris''' is the title of a French comic opera with music by François Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834), 'The French Mozart', first performed in Paris in 1812, and the connection between the march and the opera was recently uncovered in a masterly job of sluthing, recorded the 2/95 Rifles Forum [http://2nd95thrifles.wonko.myfastforum.org/about389.html&view=previous], from which the following information is derived.
+<br>
+<br>
+In 1814 Europe was finally at peace; Napoleon had been exiled to Elba, and the English once again could enjoy French culture.
+The opera "Jean de Paris" was exported to London, where an adaptation, with music composed by Charles Horn and Samuel Arnold, was staged at Drury Lane Theatre.
+It was not a success, despite prodigious talents of the composers. The '''New Monthly Magazine''' (vol. 1, 1814, p. 443), warned its readers:
+<blockquote>
+''If the success of this piece is adduced as an instance of public taste, we shall be under the'' ''necessity of wishing that our theatres were completely closed, and their companies disbanded to'' ''follow a better occupation.''
+</blockquote>
+However, a rival adaptation of the French opera was being performed at the same time at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden (Nov., 1814), a two-act comic opera "composed and partly selected from the original...by Isaac Pocock, composed and adapted for the English stage by Henry R. Bishop, Composer and Director of music to the Theatre Royal."
+The march was found in Act ii, as a "Pastoral Dance." Pocock's and Bishop's version of "John of Paris" did not fare particularly well, either, with the '''Works of Sir Henry Bishop''' reporting that Boieldieu's "pretty Overture is omitted, which a dozen uninteresting numbers by Bishop are inserted...", the exception being the tune that became known in England as "John of Paris."
 }}