The Contested Parterre

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Jeffrey S. Ravel depicts the scene in the parterre where the male spectators occupied themselves shoving one another, drinking, urinating and confronting the actors with critiques of the performance. He traces the futile efforts of the Bourbon Court - and later its Enlightened opponents - to control parterre behaviour by both persuasion and force. Ravel describes how the parterre came to represent a larger, more politicized notion of the public, one that exposed the inability of the government to accommodate the demands of French citizens.