Between 1838 and 1870, Gautier wrote 65 reviews of plays by Labiche. Before 1851, his compliments are somewhat vague, as if he had not immediately realized this author's importance. However, he is rarely harsh with him, ...

Held in Paris in 1893, the exhibition of the Portraits du prochain siècle gave rise to a polemic abundantly treated in the literary and political press of the moment. Displaying side by side the portraits of Michel Bakounine ...

Labiche dealings with censorship were not limited to the time of the Second Empire. Due to the State of Siege, and to the fact that all shows were strictly controlled by the military until 1875, the young Third Republic ...

In his articles of theatre critcism, written intermittently between 1847 and 1881, Théodore de Banville touched on Eugène Labiche's theatre thirty-seven times. With only a few exceptions, his opinion is generally favorable ...

This article examines Zola's reading of Labiche in some of his newspaper reviews. Zola does not categorically condemn a kind of theatre that, at first sight, differs considerably from his own naturalistic ideal. Indeed, ...