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Opinion d'Eschasseriaux, aîné, sur les théâtres et l'encouragement de l'art dramatique : séance du 8 floréal an 6

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Title Opinion d'Eschasseriaux, aîné, sur les théâtres et l'encouragement de l'art dramatique : séance du 8 floréal an 6

Creator Eschassériaux, Joseph, 1753-1823

Publisher De l'Imprimerie nationale

Date 1798

Place France

Language French

Subjects Theater and state

Extent 6 p. ; 22 cm

Format Early works, Pamphlets

User-Contributed Translation for the theaters you would suppress? Those which you would leave to subsist! But their art is too expensive, and too much above the wealth of ordinary citizens. Thus, I do not see here a useful reform, but a violent and precipitated operation, which would harm without benefit the existence and wealth of many citizens, the habits of many others, and would lead to serious inconveniences, in a massive population which must sometimes be distracted for its tranquility.
What is proposed is to destroy. Me, I would like to create, and that we create largely. Who is the one who, upon seeing the heights that the ideas of the nation have reached, the elevated sentiments that the revolution and national glory have imprinted upon the soul of the people, the glorious existence that the future holds for him, does not feel the need to form his spectacles on his moral and political state, and to enlarge before him the scene of his enjoyments, his pleasures, and his ideas? It must be said, the theaters will only truly be republican institutions when they have reached this purpose and this perfection, and it is the freedom of art that must lead to it.
Until now, the general evil is not in their regime and in their current organization; it is in the root of art itself: it is there that the vices and the abuses that you want to make disappear can be found; it is there that you must carry your attention and encouragements.
I do not see either the improvement of the dramatic arts in the supervision that you leave to the Directory. It must have this surveillance, no doubt; it must expand it to an institution that exerts so much power on the minds, and can become dangerous with respect to morality and public order: but what must this surveillance consist of? In policing laws. They exist, these laws: it falls to the Directory to execute them;

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Call Number Case FRC 18335

BibID 998382478805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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