{{Short description|1835 play by Alfred de Musset}} {{Italic title}} thumb|Illustration from an early edition of ''Le Chandelier'' '''''Le Chandelier''''' ({{IPA|fr|lə ʃɑ̃dəlje}}) is an 1835 play in three acts by French dramatist Alfred de Musset.<ref>Musset – Théâtre Tôme II 'Collection du Flambeau'. Hachette, Paris, 1954.</ref>
The play was first published in 1835 in ''Revue des deux Mondes''. It was first staged at the Théâtre Historique in August 1848 with Mademoiselle Maillet as Jacqueline.<ref>A note on the premiere, in the Œuvres complètes [''Lorenzaccio; Le Chandelier; Il ne faut jurer de rien'']. Charpentier, Paris, 1888, p319.</ref> In October 1850, it was produced at the Comédie-Française with a cast including Delaunay as Fortunio and Allan as Jacqueline. In October 1850, the interior minister Léon Faucher had the work banned, a decision confirmed in subsequent seasons.<ref>Alfred de Musset: Œuvres complètes [''Lorenzaccio; Le Chandelier; Il ne faut jurer de rien'']. Charpentier, Paris, 1888.</ref>
Jacques Offenbach, who wrote incidental music for the Comédie-Française production, made a sequel entitled ''La chanson de Fortunio''. An opera of 1907 by André Messager, ''Fortunio'', was based closely on the play.
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