Abstract: At the beginning of the nineteenth century, some authors sought to question the new relationship with the world by means of the “scène historique.” Ludovic Vitet, with his trilogy La Ligue, was, if not the instigator, then at least the chief architect. These works could not be performed, because of the multiplicity of locations and the number of characters, but also because they were intended to highlight a poetics of history whose dramatic effects may have been purely accidental.
