Gendarmes, Sheriff's Officer, the Clergy



SCENE: Chateau of the General de Grandchamp, near Louviers, Normandy

TIME: 1829





THE STEPMOTHER




ACT I



SCENE FIRST


(A richly decorated drawing-room; on the walls are portraits of
Napoleon I. and his son. The entry is by a large double glass door,
which opens on a roofed veranda and leads by a short stairway to a
park. The door of Pauline's apartments are on the right; those of the
General and his wife are on the left. On the left side of the central
doorway is a table, and on the right is a cabinet. A vase full of