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2001
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Mental prayer Prayer, Mental Oración contemplativa Lettres, République des Res publica litteraria Respublica litteraria Spectateurs Public Auditoire Assistance (public) Visiteurs Fréquentation Audience Vie contemplative Paradoxes Raisonnement paradoxal LutèceCiter ce document
Francois Regourd, « Lumières coloniales: Les Antilles françaises dans la République des Lettres », HAL-SHS : histoire, ID : 10670/1.0f2lam
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The fashion for theatre in 18th-century Paris was unprecedented, to the extent that one can say that theatricality was interiorised by high society. Crébillon's novel provides a significant example of this process. On the one hand, the author plays on dramatic or dramatised space, uses theatres as a background, as a trigger of speech (theatre) or as the scene of erotic contemplation (opera). On the other hand, he presents his characters as 'actors in society : accomplished, good or bad actors, but also apprentice actors learning about social interaction. Thus one can draw a parallel between this novel and Diderot's Paradoxe.