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The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution Cecilia Feilla THE SENTIMENTAL THEATER OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance Series Editors: Jane Milling, University of Exeter, UK Kathryn Lowerre, Michigan State University, USA Focusing on performance culture during the long eighteenth century, this series offers studies of individuals, institutions, forms and trends in all types of cultural performance including theatre, opera, dance, musical performance, and diverse popular entertainments. It is a forum for interdisciplinary work, drawing the debates of historians, musicologists, literary scholars, dance, theatre and opera scholars into a creative symbiosis. The editors welcome studies which are concerned with British, European, and early American cultural history. Studies that concern themselves with theoretical questions surrounding acts of performance during this period are also welcome. Also in this series Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696–1747 Aparna Gollapudi Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695–1705 Kathryn Lowerre Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England Social Harmony in Literature and Performance Leslie Ritchie The Incomparable Hester Santlow A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage Moira Goff The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia Lurana Donnels O’Malley The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution CECILIA FEILLA Marymount Manhattan College, USA First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2013 Cecilia Feilla Cecilia Feilla has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Feilla, Cecilia. The sentimental theater of the French Revolution – (Performance in the long eighteenth century) 1. French drama – 18th century – History and criticism. 2. Theater and society – France – History – 18th century. 3. France – History – Revolution, 1789–1799 – Theater and the revolution. I. Title II. Series 842.6’09-dc23 The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows Feilla, Cecilia. The sentimental theater of the French Revolution / by Cecilia Feilla. p. cm. — (Performance in the long eighteenth century: studies in theatre, music, dance) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4094-1163-5 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Theater—France—History—18th century. 2. Books and reading—France—History—18th century. 3. Theater—Moral and ethical aspects—France. 4. Politics and literature—France—History—18th century. 5. France—History—Revolution, 1789–1799—Influence. I. Title. PQ538.F45 2013 842’.509—dc23 2012033176 ISBN 9781409411635 (hbk) ISBN 9781315552996 (ebk) To M.P.H. This page has been left blank intentionally Contents List of Figures ix Preface xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 1 The Bestsellers of the French Revolution, or, Why Sentimentality Dominated the Revolutionary Stage: Four Case Studies (La Mère coupable, Le Déserteur, Fénelon, and Les Deux petits savoyards) 19 2 Revolutionary Tableaux: Diderot, David, and the Sentimental Frame of Politics 65 3 Sentimental Vows and the Affective Bonds of Social Contract: National and Private Theatricals in Collot d’Herbois’s La Famille Patriote (1790) 93 4 Virtue’s Proofs: Paméla on Stage and on Trial during the Terror 127 5 Virtuous Citizen, Suffering Father: Voltaire’s Brutus and the Sentimentalization of Political Tragedy 163 6 Acting Revolution: Talma and the Sentimental Body 197 Bibliography 225 Index 251 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Figures 1.1 The Marquis watches Michel and Joset perform a chanson savoyarde (scene iv). Les Petits savoyards: “Eh! Comment, d’Jannetto, tu n’douvines pas?” A Mesdames St Aubin & Renaud. Engraving by Augustin Claude Simon Legrand after the illustration by Jean Frédéric Schall. Paris: chez Augustin Legrand, 1789. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Michel Hennin. 58 3.1 Anonymous cartoon depicting a scene from the pantomime Paris in an Uproar; or, the Destruction of the Bastille performed at Astley’s Amphitheatre (17 August 1789). Attic Miscellany. 1 November 1789. Vol. 1, p. 41. Douce M1. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. 95 3.2 Fédération générale des Français au Champ-de-Mars le 14 juillet 1790. Engraving by Helman after Charles Monnet. Musée Carnavelet / Roger Viollet. 98 3.3 Medallion of Louis XVI swearing his oath over the altar of the fatherland. La Royauté et la Nation – 14 juillet 1790. Musée Carnavelet / Roger-Viollet. 104 3.4 Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, Serment des enfants. Gouaches de Jean-Baptiste Lesueur de 1789 à 1806. Paris: Musée Carnavalet / Roger-Viollet. 118 3.5 Jacques-Louis David, Le Serment des Horaces, ca. 1784. Paris: Musée du Louvre. Photo: G. Blot / C. Jean. Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. 119 4.1 L’Innocence présumée est Marie Françoise Victoire Salmon. n.d. [Paris, 1786] Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Collection de Vinck. 147 5.1 Jacques-Louis David, Les Licteurs rapportent à Brutus les corps de ses fils, 1789. Paris: Musée du Louvre. Photo: G. Blot / C. Jean. Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. 181

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