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[4] Its leading actors included Molière's widow, Armande Béjart, her husband, Guérin d'Estriché, La Grange, Mlle Champmeslé, Baron, Hauteroche, and Raymond Poisson.[2] On 16 April 1790 the theatre presented the world premiere of Pierre Laujon's Le Couvent, ou les Fruits du caractère et de l'éducation; the first French play to feature a cast made up of only women.[6] On 3 September 1793, during the French Revolution, the Théâtre de la Nation was closed by order of the Committee of Public Safety for putting on the allegedly seditious play Pamela, and the actors were imprisoned though gradually released later.The Comédie-Française today has a repertoire of 3,000 works and three theatres in Paris (Salle Richelieu, next to the Palais Royal; théâtre du Vieux-Colombier; Studio-Théâtre).In 1782, the company moved into the Salle du Faubourg Saint-Germain, designed by architects Marie-Joseph Peyre and Charles De Wailly and located on the site of today's Odéon.Following that evening’s performance, which nowadays is free, all members of the troupe, and since 2009 of its academy, assemble on the stage behind a bust of Molière, wearing costumes of their choice from the theatre’s repertoire.In 1821, it was moved to his recently-discovered christening date, and the next year approached its present form as the final scene of a play specially written by Justin Gensoul, Le Ménage de Molière.
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