Alphonse DAUDET (1840-1897) Autograph manuscript, Le bonnet d'âne, 1 act in verse, [ca. 1860?]; 6 pages in-fol. Manuscript that appears to be unpublished of this unfinished comedy, probably inspired by Meilhac, Halévy and Offenbach's opera-bouffe Orphée aux Enfers (1858). It features Midas, king of Phrygia, the barber Charion, his son Hylas, an embroiderer, and the Greek slave Myrrhine. The manuscript, which is interrupted in scene IV, shows red pencil erasures and corrections. A typed transcription is attached.