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L'épreuve villageoise
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L’épreuve villageoise (Trial in a Village) is an opéra bouffon in two acts by André Grétry to a French libretto by Pierre Desforges.
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It is a revision of a work called Théodore et Paulin, which was performed once at Versailles on 5 March 1784 but never published.