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Rapport fait par C. Creuze-Latouche sur la résolution du 8 floréal, relative aux théâtres : séance du 28 floréal an 6

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Title Rapport fait par C. Creuze-Latouche sur la résolution du 8 floréal, relative aux théâtres : séance du 28 floréal an 6

Creator Creuzé-Latouche, Jacques Antoine, 1749-1800

Publisher De l'Imprimerie nationale

Date 1798

Place France

Language French

Subjects Copyright, Theater and state

Extent 4 p. ; 21 cm

Format Early works, Sources, Pamphlets

User-Contributed Translation to clearly remove from royal attributions any authority over the theater, which the courtesans of the monarchy could only have used to fortify gothic prejudices and to oppose a regeneration that had to happen. It was in this intention that, by the law of January 13th, 1791, it was established that every citizen could erect a public theater, and represent plays in all genres.
By that same law, entrepreneurs and members of the different theaters were placed under the supervision of the municipalities.
The works of playwrights dead for at least five years were declared public property; & thereafter, the ownership of dramatic productions was guaranteed to their authors while they lived and, for a period of five years after their deaths, to their inheritors.
The Council of Five Hundred dealt with the modifications that needed to be made to this law, and it was after a quite enlightening discussion that the resolution of 8 floréal, now submitted to you, was written. This resolution is being rushed through. Your committee asks you to recognize its urgency, based on the reasons detailed in the same resolution.
While friends of the Republic have for their only wish to see our new laws soon sustained by happy institutions that display them even in our pleasures and unite them with our morals, friends of the arts have rather legitimate subjects of alarm on the decline that appears to threaten the dramatic arts. The Council of Five Hundred grasped an idea that struck it as able to simultaneously revive the genius of composers and artists and guide their efforts and talents without coercion or violence, to the benefit of morals and public spirit. This idea, which is the object of the resolution, consists in finding in the revenue of the dramatic arts themselves a fund destined to reward and encourage authors and artists.

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Call Number Case FRC 16802

BibID 998347198805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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