The XVIIIth Century : its institutions, customs, and costumes, France, 1700-1789 / by Paul Lacroix.

  • Paul Lacroix
Date:
[1870?]
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Credit: The XVIIIth Century : its institutions, customs, and costumes, France, 1700-1789 / by Paul Lacroix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lais, Chardini, and St. Huberty. At this date, the expenses were twice as large as they had been in the middle of the century. In 1760, the cost of carrying on the theatre did not exceed ^16,000, and the receipts would have sufficed to pay this sum, if they had not Fig. 274.—The theatre of a fair. (Representation of “ Harlequin, King of Gerendib,” at the St. Germain fair (1713) ; after Bonnart. been wasted in useless expenditure. The staff of persons belonging to the theatre, which in 1760 numbered 150, consisting of actors and actresses, dancers and danseuses, symphonists and musicians, inspectors and subordinate employds, had more than doubled twenty years later, and this exclusive of the pupils who were learning singing and dancing in the two schools attached to the opera in the Rue St. Nicaise.