Decree on the theaters

The Thermidor 10 year XV, Napoleon sign a Decree reducing the number of theaters of Paris to eight , and giving the force of law to a decree of the Minister of Interior Department of the April 25th of the same year.

This measurement carries a blow of thanks to the dramatic expansion of the French capital, which sees its theaters reduced to the following ones:

  • Large theaters
    • the Theater French (Theater of S.M. the Emperor), devoted to the Tragedy and the Comedy
    • the Theater of the Empress, considered as an appendix of the precedent
    • the Theater of the Opera (imperial Academy of Music), devoted to the Song and the Dance
    • the Theater of the Op3era Comique, intended for the “ comedies or dramas interfered verses, ariettas and pieces overall ”
  • secondary Theaters
    • the Theater of the Light comedy, dedicated to “ small parts frays of verses on known airs ”
    • the Theater of the Varieties, of which the repertory is composed of “ small parts in the grivois kind, poissard or village ”
    • the Théâtre of the Door Saint Martin's day, intended for the melodramas and the parts with large spectacle
    • the Théâtre of Gaîté, reserved for the “ Pantomime S of all kinds, but without Ballet S, with the Arlequin ades and others joke S, in the taste of those given formerly by Nicolet ”.

Article 3 of the decree specifies that “ No new theater could be built, no displacement of a troop of a room in another will not be able to take place in Our good town of Paris, without an authorization given by Us ”.

All theaters not - authorized are closed before August 15th. It is of the same interdict to represent any part on other theaters, nor to admit the public, even free there. One can distribute no poster nor no ticket to announce any spectacle without authorization.

In province, the situation is also regulated, district by district. Thus, the cities which can have to two theaters are Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseilles Nantes and Turin. On the other hand Rouen, Brest, Brussels, Toulouse, Montpellier, Nice, Genoa, Alexandria, Ghent, Antwerp, Lille, Dunkirk, Metz and Strasbourg can have only one troop “stationary” (permanent).

This decree will not survive the fall of the emperor.

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