Resumen de Le cadre historique et normatif du théâtre français sous le Consulat et l’Empire
Aware of the influence that theatre exerts on the public and that it contributes powerfully to forming the coeval public opinion, since his Coup d’État (November 1799) Napoleon took a series of measures that can be summarized in three words: encouraging (first of all, he wanted to help the theatres of the best French tradition to regain their importance as soon as possible), favoring (so that they could act most effectively to the detriment of secondary theatres), controlling (in order for great theatres to act in the service of the Emperor, whose action and name they had to glorify, Napoleon exercised more and more severe control over them). In this paper, after retracing the historical of the institutional interventions that contributes to shape the coeval dramatic landscape, we will try to consider if these measures were really effective and how they determined the evolution of theatrical art.
