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Originally, it combined two of Paris' existing dramatic companies, one of which was Molière's own Troupe du Roi. Molière himself was at the time seven years 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...
...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...
...Molière's joking is broad, but his character sense is broad-bottomed; somehow, though M. Jourdain's head swims with wild delusions, his clumsy feet stay on the ground. And the Comédie Franchise's Louis Seigner keeps him that way, makes him seem human while remaining idiotic, and so childish as to be likable. Actor Seigner's would-be gentleman becomes a solid center round which revolve a succession of sideshows...
About 20 years ago, the old theater was revivified when the Big Four of the Paris theater (Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, Georges Pitoeff, Gaston Baty) swept into the House of Molière and swept out the mustiness and pedantry that had infected it. Today it consists of two theaters, the Salle Richelieu on the Right Bank, where classical plays are given, and the Salle Luxembourg on the Left Bank, where contemporary plays are given. It has a staff of more than 400 actors and technicians, and its repertoire is so immense that it could give a completely different program...
...become a lifelong journey devoted to la chasse au bonheur-the pursuit of happiness-and the first stop was Milan, where young Beyle served as a sublieutenant in Napoleon's army of occupation. Ambitious, hot-blooded Henri knew exactly what he wanted to be: "the successor of Molière" and "a seducer of women...