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L’épreuve villageoise is an opéra bouffon in two acts by André Grétry to a French libretto by Pierre Desforges.
It is a revision of a work called Théodore et Paulin, which was performed once at Versailles on 5 March 1784 but never published.
L’épreuve villageoise was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris on 24 June 1784. It became one of the Grétry's most popular opéra-comiques during the 19th century.