Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (play)

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Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (French: Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme) is a French comic play written by Paul Gavault and Robert Charvay which premiered in 1906. Numerous film adaptations have been made of it.Limbacher p.128{{Cite book |last=Sabria |first=Jean-Charles |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Cin%C3%A9ma_fran%C3%A7ais/w3Gj8WkEXWsC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=Berthomieu+Mademoiselle+Josette+1933&dq=Berthomieu+Mademoiselle+Josette+1933&printsec=frontcover |title=Cinéma français: les années 50 : les longs métrages réalisés de 1950 à 1959 |date=1987 |publisher=Éd. du Centre Pompidou |isbn=978-2-85850-425-1 |language=fr}}

The play was staged at the théâtre du Gymnase and presented as "a "situation comedy" in the manner of Scribe".{{Cite book |last=Gavault |first=Paul |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Mlle_Josette_ma_femme/EgjmAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=Mademoiselle+Josette,+ma+femme+Gavault&dq=Mademoiselle+Josette,+ma+femme+Gavault&printsec=frontcover |title=Mlle. Josette, ma femme |last2=Charvay |first2=Robert |date=1907 |publisher=L'Illustration |language=fr}} It was a considerable commercial and critical success.{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/L_Illustration_th%C3%A9%C3%A2trale/WClKAQAAMAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=Mademoiselle+Josette,+ma+femme+Gavault&dq=Mademoiselle+Josette,+ma+femme+Gavault&printsec=frontcover |title=L'Illustration théâtrale |date=1911 |language=fr}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/La_Revue/tslTkLNcw_gC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Mademoiselle+Josette,+ma+femme+Gavault&pg=PA537&printsec=frontcover |title=La Revue: (Ancienne "Revue des revues"). |date=1910 |language=fr}}