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Rehearsals at the Comédie‐Française in the Late Eighteenth Century
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- He had Erst played the role the previous year in the provinces, at Gray and at Rouen. See BnF. Mss. fonds fr. 12532: 'Journal exact de tous les rBles que j'ai joue en bourgeoisie depuis le 27 Xbre 1747'. p.39: and Hirode et Mariamne. ed. Michael Freyne, (Euvres complites de Voltaire, 3c (Oxford 2004), p.92.
- a resolution [...I la plus chaude et la plus 17540208, 2007, 3, Downloaded from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2007.tb00339.x, Wiley Online Library on [18/08/2026]. See the Terms and Conditions (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/terms-and-conditions) on Wiley Online Library for rules of use; OA articles are governed by the applicable Creative Commons License 37. 'Je suis [...I dans les horreurs de 1'6tude et des repetitions. [...I J'ai aujourd'hui trois rep6titions. deux dans la matinee et une apres Andromaque que je joue' (Letter of 5 February 1728. in Lettres d'Adrienne Lecouvreur, ed. Georges Monval, Paris 1892, p.148).
- 'Mille pardons, mais je crois que la repktition de demain serait inutile. J'aime miem I'employer a Btudier, et me mettre en etat de jouer lundi' (Letter of 7 June 1782. Dossier Mole). 51. '[LJa plupart des comediens [...I regardent en general une repetition comme une t6che pknible. S'ils ne peuvent pas s'en dispenser tout-a-fait, ils en font le moins qu'ils peuvent, et ce n'est guere qu'a la derniere qu'ils mettent une attention un peu serieuse' (Grimod de La Reynikre. Censeur dramatique, ou Journal des principaux thiitres de Paris et des dkpartements etc. 4 vols, Paris 1797-1798: repr. in 3 vols, Geneva 1973, vol.2, no.15, p.350, 30 nivdse an VI: 19 January 1798).
- '[Ll'auteur en fit cinquante repetitions [...I [L]a complaisance des comediens fut dans cette occasion inepuisable' (La Reyniere, Censeur dramatique, vol.2, no.15. p.351, 30 nivdse an VI: 19 January 1798. my emphasis). 17540208, 2007, 3, Downloaded from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2007.tb00339.x, Wiley Online Library on [18/08/2026]. See the Terms and Conditions (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/terms-and-conditions) on Wiley Online Library for rules of use; OA articles are governed by the applicable Creative Commons License Rehearsals at the Corndie-Frangaise 357
- H. Carrington Lancaster. 'The Comedie-Francaise, 1701-1774: Plays, Actors, Spectators, Finances', Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 41 (December 1951). p.800, 821, 838.
- See letter of 4 April 1791, Dossier Josephine Mkray. Of course, whenever an actor was needed, or summoned, in order to fill a particular emploi, their debut roles were rather prescribed for them, either by the troupe or. frequently, by the Premiers Gentilshommes de la Chambre. June 1783). 1783). 17540208, 2007, 3, Downloaded from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2007.tb00339.x, Wiley Online Library on [18/08/2026]. See the Terms and Conditions (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/terms-and-conditions) on Wiley Online Library for rules of use; OA articles are governed by the applicable Creative Commons License 77. 'Le matin, les Comediens firent une petite rep6tition avec [Mlle Saint-Val cadette], suivant l'usage, pour concerter les entrees et les sorties' (Correspondunce littiraire. x.8, July 1772). In 1757 the Comkdie's regulations had stipulated that '[tlhe actors in each of the plays in which the debutant [was] to play [were] obliged to hold a rehearsal of the entire plug on the stage' (Les acteurs de chaque piece oh le debutant doit jouer sont obliges de faire une repitition gtnirde sur le thkiitre) (my emphasis): see Des Essarts, Trois thihtres, p.186.
- 'On devait donner pour petite pike La Metamorphose arnoureuse; mais le Roi a demand6 Crispin rnedecin; et M. Prkville n'ayant point d'habitude de Crispin, il a joue avec une veste et une culotte noire du Roi' (Registre desfeux, R.130/12.1780-1781.27 February 1781). Even shorter notice still was given on 23 May 1767, when a certain Neveu, a highly reputed provincial actor, was ordered to try out at the ComMie-Franqaise: he was playing the title role in Crkbillon's Rhudurniste et Znobie, 'but the audience wouldn't allow him to h i s h his first scene, and prevailed upon Lekain to get into costume and continue in his place' (mais le public n'a pas voulu lui laisser achever sa premiere scene et a force Lekain de s'habiller pour continuer le rble) (Journal des Menusplaisirs du Roi, p.123.24 [May 17671).
- '[Cle ne devrait jamais dtre qu'a la quatrieme ou cinquieme representation d'une piece nouvelle qu'on devrait juger la manikre dont elle est joke, parce que jusques-la l'acteur le plus habile t5te necessairement son rble: et ce n'est vraiment qu'alors qu'il en est maitre' (La Reyniere. Censeur drarnatique, vol.2, no.15. p.335,30 nivbse an VI: 19 January 1798).
- '[Hlier [Augk] ne le savait pas: il a manque en vingt endroits, fait de fausses rimes et brisk le mesure de plus de deux cent vers' (Journal des thehtres. no.4, p.150, 15 May 1777). Twelve months earlier the same journal had reported that 'the prompter [...I was busier shoring up [AugB's] memory than that of all the other actors put together' (le soufneur [...I Btait plus occupe a aider sa [AugB's] memoire que celle de tousles autres ensemble) (no.2, p.89,15 April 1776).
- 'J'ai pens6 en condquence que je ferais plus sagement de passer ma matinee a ktudier tranquillement mon Homme dangereux. qui a 614 vers' (Letter of 25 April 1782, Dossier Mole). 17540208, 2007, 3, Downloaded from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2007.tb00339.x, Wiley Online Library on [18/08/2026]. See the Terms and Conditions (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/terms-and-conditions) on Wiley Online Library for rules of use; OA articles are governed by the applicable Creative Commons License Rehearsals at the Comddie-Fraqaise 359
- 'J'ai cm pouvoir remettre Le Cocher, [mais] il est en tout petits mots. Voila dix-huit mois que je ne I'ai joue et je crains demain de m'embarbouiller [...I Mettez-moi ou Le Procureur arbitre ou La Skrdnade, Le Frangais a Londres. L'Epreuve rdciproque, Le TripZe mariage. Voila de quoi choisir. mais si vous tenez au Cocher, faites mettre le nom d'un autre sur la fiche, car je ne puis me le remettre dans la mkmoire' (Letter of 28 September 1790. Dossier Dugazon). The six plays referred to by Dugazon are, in the order named, by Hauteroche, Philippe Poisson, Regnard, Boissy, Legrand and Alain, and Destouches. 98. 'A la seconde representation, c'btait encore pis; le souffleur a dit la moitik de son r6le. et on a vu le moment qu'il ne pourrait pas achever' (Letter of 15 December 1783. in Christopher Todd, 'La Harpe's Letters to the Shuvalovs', SVEC 108,1973, p.148).
- a repetition des Chkrusques, tragklie nouvelle oh l'on avait fait beaucoup de corrections' (Registre des assemblkes. R.5~/24, 1772-1775, f . 1 3 ~ 28 September 1772). 124. Stern, Rehearsal, p.269. 125. In addition to those from Le Roi Lkar, see examples from Colardeau's revised version of Rotrou's Venceslas (1774), La Harpe's Jeanne I'~', reine de Naples (1781). Ducis's Macbeth (1784) and Legouvb's La Mort d'Abel(17gz). in Barnett, Art ofGesture, p.386-415. 126. '[Alppris en 8 jours' (Letter of 16 November 1772. Dossier Renou). 127. Golder. Shakespeare for the Age of Reason, p.75. 128. '[Slouvent le math meme [de la premiere representation] la piece est a peine sue; en sorte que cette premiere representation n'est qu'une demiere retition' (La Reyniere, Censeur dramatique, ~01.2. no.15, p . 3 5 ~3 0 nivBse an VI: 19 January 1798). 129. Stem, Rehearsal, p.234-35. 130. It was in his capacity as company secretary rather than prompter that Delaporte turned to publishing and compiled an invaluable 3-volume Catalogue despieces choisies du rkpertoire de la Comkdie-FrangLw, avec les personnages de chaque pike, et le nombre de lignes en vers de chaque rdle etc. (Paris 1775). 131. '[Cleux qui ont COMU l'estimable la Porte [sic] [...I conviendront qu'il en rkunissait une grande partie [des qualites pour former un excellent souffleur], et qu'a de connaissances fort etendues. il savait joindre une politesse et une amenit6 qui l'avaient rendu cher aux gens- de-lettres. [...] I1 joignait a une longue exp6rience du thefitre, un tact tres siir sur les effets theltrals [sic][...]. I1 joignait ses grande connaissances [sic] une modestie et une simplicit6 qui en relevaient singulikrement le prix. Tous ceux qui l'ont COMU le regrettent, et les comkliens, plus encore que les autres [...I [Ill posskdait le talent de souffler a un degre peu commun. Un acteur qui, avant d'entrer en scene. l'avertissait de s'occuper de hi. etait bien sQr de ne jamais rester dans l'embarras. M. de la Porte, qui avait toujours a la bouche le mot qu'on disait, pendant que son aeil droit Btait sur celui qu'on avait a dire, devinait dans les yeux si sa memoire allait etre en dkfaut, et se trouvait ainsi toujours pret a y supplkr' (La Reyniere. Censeur drarnatique, v01.z. no.18, p.569-71.30 pluviBse an VI: 18 February 1798). 132. [Anon.], Remarks on the Character and Manners of the French, in a series of letters, written during a residence of twelve months in Paris and its environs, 2 vols (London 1769), i.82, letter 15 (24 November 1766). 121. Dene Barnett, The Art of Gesture: The Practices and Principles of 18' 2 -Century Acting 17540208, 2007, 3, Downloaded from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2007.tb00339.x, Wiley Online Library on [18/08/2026]. See the Terms and Conditions (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/terms-and-conditions) on Wiley Online Library for rules of use; OA articles are governed by the applicable Creative Commons License
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