Theatres and Cafés in revolutionary Paris (1792) [ Practices ]
… have lot nothing behind them but public spirit and public virtue; 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 ; … graces of whose performance it is impossible not to feel, but no less impossible to describe. "Gestures, that marks with force, and feeling fraught, A scene in silence, and a will in thought ; All perishable, like th' electric fire, But … fragrance charms the sense, and melts in air." Mademoiselle Clairon, the celebrated French tragic actress, not contented with the shame she had acquired, once attempted contrary to the advice of her friends, to act the part of Merope, in …
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