The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . Fig. 253.—Funeral Supper, given Iy Griniod de la Reyniere the younger, at Iiishotel in the Champs Elysces, Paris, Fel>. isl, 17S3. (From a very rareengraving, communicated by M. Fontaine.) Grimod de la Reyniere, who was a finished but eccentric gastro-nomist, attempted to renew the tradition of the past, by givino- anentertainment during the carnival of 1783, to tvvo-and-twenty of hisfriends. The entertainment began by a sort of funeral ceremony, 386 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. and terminated in a magnificent suppe
The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . Fig. 253.—Funeral Supper, given Iy Griniod de la Reyniere the younger, at Iiishotel in the Champs Elysces, Paris, Fel>. isl, 17S3. (From a very rareengraving, communicated by M. Fontaine.) Grimod de la Reyniere, who was a finished but eccentric gastro-nomist, attempted to renew the tradition of the past, by givino- anentertainment during the carnival of 1783, to tvvo-and-twenty of hisfriends. The entertainment began by a sort of funeral ceremony, 386 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. and terminated in a magnificent supper of nine courses, each of whichwas composed of only one kind of meat cooked in twenty-twodifferent ways. This singular supper, which resembled a funeralfeast, was the talk of Paris for a fortnight afterwards. f?;-?- f^i ^. Fig. 254 —A CHAPTER XVI. THE THEATRES. The at the end of the Reign of Louis XIV. —Mdme. de Maintenon and tlie Young Ladies atSt. Cyi-.—Revival of Theatrical Tastes during the Regency.—The Opera ; the Comedie Fran9aise ;the Theatre-Ttalien ; the Opera Comique.—Actors and their Relations with the Public.—The Pit.—Costumes and Scenery.—The Theatres at the Fairs.—Private Theatres. Louis XIV., in marrying Madame de Maintenon, as if to dopenance for the errors of his youth, had to submit to the dictationof the widow of Scarron (the author of Jodelet, and DonJaphet dArmenie), who was tlic irreconcilable enemy of the stageand of actors. The King thus expiated his former passion for thestage, refusing to attend representations at Versailles by the royalcompany, not only of new pieces, whether comic or tragic, but evenof those belonging to the ancient repertory. Madame de Maintenontwice offered him in compensation, a reminiscence as it were of thedrama
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