The theatre of France has a long and eventful history dating back to the Middle Ages.
Famous quotes containing the words theatre of, theatre and/or france:
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.”
—David Hare (b. 1947)
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)