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lado, para a reabilitação do ofício dos comediantes, pois logo sua companhia de atores<br />

constituiria um modelo a ser imitado em toda a Europa.<br />

palavras-chave: Educação. Sociedade. Teatro. Costumes.<br />

ABSTRACT: In the second half of the eighteenth century, the philosopher and<br />

mathematician D'Alembert, with Voltaire's support, writes the entry "Geneva,"<br />

published in 1757, where he recalled the importance of the<strong>ate</strong>r in order to perfect the<br />

taste and customs of the peoples and urged the genetics to repeal the laws prohibiting<br />

their installation in the city. According to D'Alembert, the prohibition was not the<br />

distrust of Geneva in relation to the spectacles themselves, but the fear that the taste of<br />

the comedians for luxury and debauchery would harm the youth of the city. Such a<br />

drawback, however, he continued, could be circumvented by the enactment of laws<br />

containing possible abuses. Geneva would thus have spectacles and customs,<br />

contributing, on the other hand, to the rehabilitation of the comedians' trade, for soon its<br />

company of actors would be a model to be imit<strong>ate</strong>d throughout Europe.<br />

keywords: Education. Society. The<strong>ate</strong>r. Mores.<br />

Na segunda metade do século XV<strong>II</strong>I, o filósofo e m<strong>ate</strong>mático, D’Alembert,<br />

com o apoio de Voltaire, escreve o verbete “Genebra”, publicado em 1757, onde<br />

lembrava a importância do teatro a fim de aperfeiçoar o gosto e os costumes dos povos e<br />

exortava os genebrinos a revogarem as leis que proibiam a sua instalação na cidade. O<br />

que explicava a proibição, segundo d’Alembert, não era a desconfiança de Genebra em<br />

relação aos próprios espetáculos, mas o temor de que o gosto dos comediantes pelo luxo<br />

e libertinagem trouxesse prejuízo à juventude da cidade. Tal inconveniente, entretanto,<br />

continuava ele, poderia ser contornado pela promulgação de leis que contivessem os<br />

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