Busts in "Hall of Honor" at the Comédie Française. This photograph shows the Gallerie d'honneur of the Comédie Française, as it appears today; it still includes Caffieri's and Pigalle's eighteenth-century busts. Reproduction courtesy of the BCF. Photograph by Patricia LeGras.
  • Busts in "Hall of Honor" at the Comédie Française. This photograph shows the Gallerie d'honneur of the Comédie Française, as it appears today; it still includes Caffieri's and Pigalle's eighteenth-century busts. Reproduction courtesy of the BCF. Photograph by Patricia LeGras.

Busts in "Hall of Honor" at the Comédie Française. This photograph shows the Gallerie d'honneur of the Comédie Française, as it appears today; it still includes Caffieri's and Pigalle's eighteenth-century busts. Reproduction courtesy of the BCF. Photograph by Patricia LeGras.

From A field of honor: writers, court culture and public theater in French literary life from Racine to the Revolution by Gregory S. Brown

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  • European: 1400-1800
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