Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française , or Th3e4atre Fran1cais was founded in 1680 and is since 1799 in the middle of the Palais Royal in the I {{er}} district of Paris. It is only the Théâtre of State in France having a permanent troop of actor S, the Troupe of the French Actors. The playwright the most known attache with the Comédie-Française is Molière. He is regarded as the owner French actors . He had however died for seven years when was born the “house from Molière”.
History
The Comédie-Française is founded by Lettre de cachet of Louis XIV the October 21st 1680 to amalgamate the two only Parisian troops of the time, the troop of the Hôtel Guénégaud and that of the Hôtel of Burgundy. The August 25th, the actors had already met to give their first common representation, composed of Phèdre (Racine) and of the Carosses of Orleans (the Vault). The royal act grants the monopoly to them to play Paris, that the Actors of the Com3edie fran1caise will defend jealously during the 18th century, in particular against the Actor-Italian.The January 5th 1681, the Actors of the Com3edie fran1caise bind between them by an act of association which regulates in particular the mode of the pensions of the reprocessed actors. The repertory is composed then of the whole of the Plays of Molière and Jean Racine, as well as few parts of Pierre Corneille, Paul Scarron and Jean Rotrou. The distributions are stopped by the author if it is alive and, in the contrary case, by the first gentlemen of the Room of the king. A military commission sits there to condemn a royalist insurrection in 1795 The September 3rd 1793, during the Revolution, the Comédie-Française is closed by order of the Comité of public hello, and the actors are imprisoned.
The May 31st 1799, the new government places at the disposal the room Richelieu where Talma played, to make it possible to the actors to reconstitute the troop.
In 1812, the emperor Napoleon I {{er}}, into full Countryside with Russia, decides to reorganize the Comédie-Française by signing the October 15th, the decree known as “of Moscow” which comprises 87 articles, and which remains, with a margin of little thing, the statute still into force today.
The currency of the Comédie-Française is Simul and singulis (to be together and be oneself).
The Comédie-Française has today a repertory of 3.000 parts and three theaters with Paris: the room Richelieu (left the Palais Royal), the Theater of the Old man-Dovecote and the Studio-Theater.
Rooms of the Comédie-Française
- 1680 - 1687: Hotel of Guénégaud : the Comédie-Française was born with the Hotel of Guénégaud.
- 1687 - 1770: Room of the Ditch-Saint-Germain : in June 1687, the actors were expelled by order of the king of the hotel of Guénégaud, with the reason which they were likely to disturb the Collège of the Four-Nations, which was going to open its doors. They settled with the play of palm of Star, located street of the Ditch-Saint-Germain-of-Meadows (current n° 14 of the Rue of the Old-Comedy).
- 1770 - 1782: Engine room of the Palate of Tileries.
- 1782 - 1793: Theater of Odéon : in 1782, the actors of the Com3edie fran1caise are accommodated temporarily with the Théâtre of Odéon. The troop being dispersed at the time of the Revolution, the theater becomes private property.
- 1799 at our days: Room Richelieu with the Palais Royal conceived by the architect Victor Louis.
- 1996 : opening of the Studio-Theater.
Administrators
See also: Administrators of the Comédie-Française
Troops of the Comédie-Française
Decorations of the Comédie-Française
At the 20th century, the decorations of the Comédie-Française were designed by known painters, of which Marie Laurencin, Valentine Hugo, Christian Bérard, Jean Carzou, Cassandre, Raoul Dufy, Richard Peduzzi or the director and plastics technician Bob Wilson.A team of twenty people ensures the realization of the decorations.
The curtain of scene was created by the painter Olivier Debré.
An object, pilot tragic of the last moments of Molière places there
The repertory
See: the repertory of the Comédie-Française
The Library-museum of the Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française dipose of funds of books, documents, manuscripts, tables, sculptures, drawings and objects of Article This unit, extremely important, (including 360 tables and 270 sculptures) is preserved by the Library-museum of the Comédie-Française, whose offices are located in the enclosure of the Palais Royal, gallery of the Beaujolais wine. This establishment, opened to the researchers, is not visited (the museum term is inadequate), of works, if necessary, are lent during exposures.
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