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  • Chapter 5 - Representing Monarchies

  • from Part II - In Practice
  • Clare Siviter, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    Theatre and Censorship in France from Revolution to Restoration
    Published online:
    30 November 2025
    Print publication:
    18 December 2025, pp 162-189

  • Summary

    The final three chapters are dedicated to the censors’ third major concern: the representation of government. Chapter 5 focuses on representing monarchies, at home and abroad, through periods when kings were in power in France (until 1792 and from 1814 and 1815) and when they were declared enemies of the state. It examines not only monarchies in major new tragedies, high comedies, or drames for the principal Parisian theatres like the Comédie-Française or the Odéon, but also the afterlives of pre-existing plays like Tartuffe and the opéra-comique Richard, Cœur de Lion, and new propagandistic productions to celebrate the restored monarchy. Such plays encountered bureaucratic censorship, certainly, but also performances despite their bans in places like Caen, Bordeaux, and the Roer and Cantal departments. Additionally, thanks to dynamic lateral censorship from audiences and theatres alike, royal figures could become a thorn in the sides of monarchical and republican or imperial governments alike.