In 1530, François Ifounded the Collège des lecteurs royaux, now the Collège de France, to provide the nation with the knowledge it needed. One hundred and fifty years later, in 1680, Louis XIVfounded the Comédie-Française, entrusting it with the monopoly of Parisian theater. From the stage of knowledge, as orchestrated for nearly five hundred years by the Collège de France, to the knowledge of the stage, admirably concentrated in the more than three-hundred-year-old experience of the Théâtre-Français, many parallels can be drawn between the two institutions created by royalty and finally adopted by the Republic. As Éric Ruf's ten-year tenure at the helm of Molière's troupe draws to a close, the King's teachers invite the King's actors to share their knowledge of the theater, and to talk about what it means to them to act, to direct, to speak verse and prose, to embody life and society, and to take to the stage to speak about the world and to the world. Theater is knowledge : in 2025, the Collège de France and the Comédie-Française have decided to join forces to celebrate this knowledge in sevenexceptional encounters staggered from January to June.
Speakers :Éric Ruf, Thomas Römer, William Marx, Dominique Blanc, Denis Podalydès, Florence Naugrette, Pierre-Michel Menger, Antoine Lilti, Isabelle Nanty, Patrick Boucheron.
Moderated by : Béline Dolat, journalist, editor-in-chief, producer, program advisor at France Culture and Mathilde Serrell, journalist and producer at France Inter .
With the support of the Fondation Hugot du Collège de France Foundation
In partnership with Télérama
