ABSTRACT
In 1792 the Commune de Paris forbade the performance of Adrien at the Académie Royale de Musique. This is the first major challenge to the censorship law of 1791. Why did the Commune follow this course of action, how did they get away with challenging the Assemblée? The answers show conflicting political positions of the time, whose only common ground was the belief in theatre’s importance as an instrument for moral and patriotic education.
