The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . Fig. 255.—Section showing the height and breadth of the Opera built at the Palais-Royal, byMoreau, after the designs of Radel, stage-machinist of the Paris Opera. Paris possessed only two theatres at this date, the RoyalAcademy of Music and the Theatre Frangais. The representationsof the Italian comedians, who had settled at the theatre of the H6tel THE THEATRES. 389 de Bourgogne, in the Rue Mauconseil after the two royal troupes hadbecome incorporated into one at the theatre in the Rue Guenegaud(1680), were prohi
The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . Fig. 255.—Section showing the height and breadth of the Opera built at the Palais-Royal, byMoreau, after the designs of Radel, stage-machinist of the Paris Opera. Paris possessed only two theatres at this date, the RoyalAcademy of Music and the Theatre Frangais. The representationsof the Italian comedians, who had settled at the theatre of the H6tel THE THEATRES. 389 de Bourgogne, in the Rue Mauconseil after the two royal troupes hadbecome incorporated into one at the theatre in the Rue Guenegaud(1680), were prohibited after the production of a piece called La. Fig. 256.—The Italian Theatre; after Lancret. Fausse Parade, which was considered to be a satire on Madame deMaintenon. This was in May, 1697, and on the members of thetroupe appealing to Louis XIV. to withdraw the decree they werereceived very coldly and dismissed by the King, who said to them : You have no reason to complain that Cardinal Mazarin temptedyou from Italy. You came to France on foot, and you have madeenough to return in your carriages. The Comedie-Italienne was 30O THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. mucli more popular than the Comedie-Frangaise, as is attested bySt. Evrcmond, who makes his Sicilian visitor say : The generalpublic likes a hearty laugh, and this is why the Italian actors arepreferred. The Marais Theatre, which had long been a rival ofthe Hotel de Bourgogne, ceased to exist in 1673, ^^ the specu-lators who had frequently endeavoured to establish permanenttheatres upon the St. Germain fair field, were invariably closed,as trenching on the privileges of the Comedie-F
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