Les Promesses d'un t?nor, 1842. The promises of a tenor. 1841. 'Carissimi signori, ze vous remercie, perch? je vous promets zi zamais ze ?ante, de ne ?antare que sur la sc?ne del Teatro-Italiano di Parizi'. 1842. Il signor Rubini redit aux ?chos de la Tamise les ?ternelles cavatines de la Somnambula des Puritains et de la Niob?. Italian singer in broken French: 1841. 'Dear sirs, I thank you, because I promise that if I ever sing again, it will only be on the stage of the Teatro-Italiano of Paris'. 1842. Signor Rubini performs to the echoes of the Thames the eternal cavatinas of The Somnambula from the Puritans and from The Niob?. (Rubini promises the Parisians not to sing anywhere else, but the following year appears on the London stage). From Caricatures du jour.