 “The plot of course, is told in the title, and Miss Rebecca Isaacs, as Jeannette, looked very much like Brandard's clever lithographs on the music.”

In Stirling’s play, Jeannot was leaving to fight in the French revolutionary wars as an army conscript.A new French system of conscription introduced in 1798, making men aged 20 to 25 liable for five years of army service, is seen as the beginning of modern European conscription.In 1852, the London actor and singer William Hawthorne Eburne produced a second musical called ‘Jeannette and Jeannot or The Conscript’s Vow’.