©Comédie-Française 2005
 
 
Construction of the
salle Richelieu
,
 
 
Drama, a short-lived art form by definition, vanishes when the curtain falls, whether the performance takes place on an improvised stage or on that of a horseshoe-shaped theatre. With its successive Parisian dwellings, the history of the "Société des Comédiens-Français" recalls that of a company of strolling players.


(Click on the different historical premises of the Comédie-Française)