des Arcades de Rome. He debuted at the Comédie-Française on 16 February 1761, in the role of Zamore in Voltaire's Alzire. The Mercure de France for March...

faction of the Comédie-Française, led by Talma, left that company's theatre on the left bank (at that time known as the Théâtre de la Nation, but today...

et en prose, The Hague 1780: Le Charlatan, ou le docteur Sacroton, comédie-parade en un acte, en prose, The Hague and Paris, Vve Ballard et fils 1780: La...

his origins in the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne. The name is a diminutive of Pierre...

permitted in Paris: Opéra de Paris Comédie-Française Comédie-Italienne Opéra-Comique In 1762, the Opéra-Comique merged with the Comédie-Italienne. In 1791,...

Stockholm and a lot of temporary amateur troupes performed among the aristocracy, the most known one "Count De la Gardies comedients", made by noble youths...

competition by the Opéra and the Comédie-Française, and restrictions were again more strictly enforced. The troupes at the Foire Saint-Germain and the...

departures of the French troupes at the end of 1748. He then played at Toulouse and Bordeaux, then made his debut at the Comédie-Française on 27 April 1752 in...

companies, the Comédie-Francaise, was located since 1689 on the rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-des-Prés (now 14 rue de l'Ancienne-Comédie). In 1770, because...

the Musique du roi, the King's personal troupe of musicians. He was also a composer and later became Maître de musique for the courts of the Duke of Chartres...

debut at the Comédie-Italienne, as Mme Saintclair, in La Fausse Magie by Gretry; then as Alix, in Les Trois fermiers de Dezède; as Aline, in la Belle Arsène...

the Comédie-Française transported the painting to Versailles in the night of 3 September. Some time later, the Medusa was moved to the Château de Chambord...

Paris with his granddaughter, mademoiselle Fleury, actress in the Comédie-Française. Jean-Philippe Van Aelbrouck, Bernardy, Charles-Alexandre Bernard...

Guilbert de Pixérécourt was accepted by the Théâtre Feydeau in 1797 but never performed. La femme de quarante-cinq ans, a 1-act comédie mêlée de musique...

caprices for violin, dedicated to C. Lubbert La paysanne supposée, ou La fête de la moisson, a 3-act comédie mêlée d'ariettes, was performed only once by...

recitation of text on stage, which was the exclusive right of the Comédie-Française and the Royal Academy of Music. The actors at the fairs responded...

many killed. 1697 June – The Comédie Italienne theater troupe is banned after they perform La Fausse prude at the Hôtel de Bourgogne; the play has an unflattering...