 | The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680–1791 Subjects: Theater -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century; Theater -- France -- Paris -- History -- 17th century; Theater audiences -- France -- Paris; In the playhouses of eighteenth-century France, clerks and students, soldiers and merchants, and the occasional aristocrat stood in the pit, while the majority of the elite sat in loges. These denizens of the parterre, who accounted for up to... Jeffrey S. Ravel is Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
