Les rendez-vous bourgeois

Les rendez-vous bourgeois is an opéra comique in one act by Nicolas Isouard to a French libretto by François-Benoît Hoffmann. The work was first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Feydeau in Paris on 9 May 1807.

Synopsis
The action takes place in 1807 in the living room of a country house, near the forest of Bondy.

Dugravier lives with his daughter Reine, his niece Louise and his servants Julie and Bertrand. The latter is in love with Julie but she favours Jasmin, a valet in a nearby house, visiting the Dugravier home.

Dugravier decides to go to Paris with Bertrand to arrange marriages for Reine and Louise with the sons of two rich gentlemen. They depart at nightfall, through the bandit-ridden forest.

With Dugravier gone, Louise confides to Julie that she has a lover, Charles, with whom she has an assignation that night, while Reine confesses that she too is to meet her own César. Charles, César and Jasmin hide upon the unexpected return of Dugravier, who says that he has met brigands on his way. The three young men then escape through a window, but return shortly after, claiming to have fought off the imaginary bandits. They introduce themselves as the two sons of the Parisians, and Dugravier gratefully agrees to all three marriages.

Musical numbers

 * "Autrefois, pour plus d'un maître" - Jasmin
 * "N'ose pas approcher" - Julie, Bertrand, Jasmin
 * "Mon père! mon oncle!" - Reine, Louise, Julie, Dugravier, Bertrand
 * "Quoi! rien n'a pu vous animer" - Julie
 * "Tous les jours il me regardait" - Louise
 * "Allons, plus de tristesse" - Julie
 * "Je pense toujours au moment" - Louise, Charles
 * "Fortune en ce monde" - César
 * "Un moment de gêne" - Jasmin, César, Charles
 * "En ce monde, je l'admire" - Dugravier, Louise, Charles, César, Reine, Jasmin, Bertrand