Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… panoply of distractions for noble lords seeking escape from boredom. 1 . Dominique Quéro, ‘Les théâtres de société de la duchesse du Maine‘, Les Plaisirs de l’Arsenal. Poésie, musique, danse et érudition au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: … the sharing of tears and laughter where, for the length of a performance, all social differences were abolished. The duchess du Maine, the duc d’Orleans, the marquise Émilie Du Châtelet, and the comte de Clermont, to name but a few, all … of criticisms in their letters to friends and family members. Mme de Staal-Delaunay was one such. During a visit to the duchesse du Maine, she told Mme du Deffand that Émilie du Châtelet had, in a performance of Voltaire’s Le Comte de …
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