Theatres and Cafés in revolutionary Paris (1792) [ Practices ]
… and that all splendour, taste, and gaiety have fled with them to Coblentz. There are at present no less than twenty theatres at Paris, which are well filled every night ; and at most of which you see charming acting. The grace, the sprightliness, the naïveté, the easy natural movements of their comic actors far surpass any thing our London theatres can boast. Let us resign to the French the palm of comedy, since the laurels of tragedy are all our own. - There … or festivity, in societies where women are excluded, never enters into the imagination of a Frenchman." … France … Theatre … Coffeehouses … French Revolution … Text : Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France: containing many new …
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