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...dead. But in his lifetime he had been recognized as a great playwright and, unlike Shakespeare, as a great actor too. It was in his spirit that the new theatrical enterprise got under way. State funds offered actors great prestige, security and high incomes, and through the centuries Le Françiase has presented such alltime greats as Talma, Rachel, Mounet-Sully and Bernhardt. But where state funds are involved, so are political favors. In the early part of the 20th century, the mistress of an influential politician had a better chance to get into the Comédie Fran...
...Bourgeois Sentilhomme (by Molière) was the opening bill of a momentous Broadway engagement; for the first time in its illustrious 275-year history, the Comédie Françise was performing (in French) on U.S. soil. It was fitting that the Comédie should raise its first Broad way curtain on something by France's most famous playwright; it was, on the whole, wise that it chose from Molière something so relatively familiar and so lightly entertaining as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Far from the great Molière of Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois...
...audiences a chance to see, such varied fare as Shakespeare and Beaumarchais, Mauriac and Montherlant. It combines the best of the old and the best of the new in France. Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault once said: "I have a god: the theater. When I entered Le Franç I entered a religion whose temple was La Comédie and whose pope was Moli...
...those who invested them. Day after day, they are tormented and harassed until they are morally and physically exhausted." Pointedly, Coty cited Clemenceau's dictum: "Liberty is the right to discipline oneself so as not to be disciplined by others." In the pages of Le Figaro, André François-Poncet, longtime French High Commissioner in Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which depict us, in all languages of the world, as the 'sick man of Europe,' the worm-eaten plank to which...
...French high cultural circles, mere excellence is not considered the whole guarantee of immortality. The distinguished men who at any one time occupy the 40 chairs of the famed Académie Française enjoy a specific patent of immortality that dates back to Cardinal Richelieu. But many of France's greatest writers have been barred from the academy for reasons that had little to do with their greatness. The academy's mythical "41st chair," reserved by legend for those who never made the grade, has been occupied by such greats as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose loose...