Désacralisation et transfert du sacré dans Le Jugement dernier des rois de Sylvain Maréchal

This article analyses the way in which Sylvain Maréchal deconsecrated the prophetic biblical episode of the last judgement in Le Jugement dernier des rois (1793) so as to create a sacred centred on the founding human values of a new world. The play, through a spectacular mise en scène, partakes in a revolutionary fervour whose functions it fulfils by connecting its spectators.