Dress rehearsal of Jean Sarment's Madame quinze, with Mary Marquet playing la Pompadour. The play receives acclaim from the audience, though the press is not unanimously in favour.
Réalisateurs et réalisatrices à la Comédie-Française
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Contre
Contre
1900
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
1670
L'une des comédies-ballets les plus populaires de Molière
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La Puce à l'oreille
La Puce à l'oreille
1941
Feydeau et ses metteurs en scène : un couple entre liberté et fidélité
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Hécube, pas Hécube
Hécube, pas Hécube
1819
Battantes
Samuel Beckett's entry onto the Repertoire with the opening of Waiting for Godot directed by Roger Blin at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon.
Marie Ndiaye's entry onto the Repertoire with the staging of Papa doit manger in the Salle Richelieu. This is the first production of a play by a new living author since 1983.
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On some preference esteem is based; To esteem everything is to esteem nothing. (Le Misanthrope, I, 1)
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Voltaire
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It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. (Zadig, 1747)
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Feydeau
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Husbands of women we love are always idiot ! (Le Dindon, 1896, I, 1 )
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Molière
@Molière Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. (Le Malade imaginaire, 1673, II, 11)
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Feydeau
@Feydeau How can I understand what you say ! You always talk to me in backlight, I can't see what you telling me. (Le Dindon, 1896, II, 15 )
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Molière
@Molière The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; It is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself (Le Misanthrope, II, 4)
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Molière
@Molière All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose. (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1670, II, 4)
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Voltaire
@Voltaire Virtue is debased by self-justification (Oedipe, 1718, II, IV)
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To be or not to be, that is the question. (Hamlet, 1601, III, 1)
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Corneille
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Love is a tyrant, sparing none. (Le Cid, 1636, I, 2)
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Marivaux
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In this world, one must be a little too good in order to be good enough. (Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard)
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Voltaire
@Voltaire Let us cultivate our garden. (Candide, ou l'Optimisme, 1759)
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Molière
@Molière We die only once, and for such a long time! (Le Dépit Amoureux, V, 4)
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Racine
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. (Britannicus, 1669, IV, 3)
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Corneille
@Corneille Self-love is the source of all our other loves. (Tite et Bérénice, 1670, II, 3)
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Marivaux
@Marivaux Husbands wear a mask to the world, and make a face to their wives. (Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard)
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Molière
@Molière I prefer an accommodating vice To an obstinate virtue. (Amphitryon, 1666, I, 4)
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Feydeau
@Feydeau Security and discretion ! Hôtel du Libre-Échange, 220, Provence Street ! Recommended for maried couples... together or separately ! (L'Hôtel du libre-Échange)
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Shakespeare
@Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet. (Roméo and Juliet, II, 2)
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Racine
@Racine I loved him too much not to hate him at all! (Andromaque, II, 1)
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Corneille
@Corneille To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. (Le Cid, 1636, II, 2)
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Racine
@Racine There are no secrets that time does not reveal. (Britannicus, 1669, IV, 4)
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Racine
@Racine Today, let us make haste to enjoy life. Who knows if we will be tomorrow? (Athalie, II, 9)
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Feydeau
@Feydeau She kissed me in my bed !… and I was sleeping under the couch !… (La dame de chez Maxim, I, 4)
