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The illustrious tradition of the French theater finally finds its linguistic codification in 1885 thanks to the Historical and Picturesque Dictionary by Arthur Pougin. This literary genre acquired an important formal status at the end of the nineteenth century. The author gives considerable space to all the constituent elements of theatricality. He favors the popular and playful aspects of theater, and the work results in an original and fascinating unification of what are often viewed as disparate concepts: dramatic theory and dramatic performance.