Le Gai Savoir Nietzsche Le Travail

Beaumarchais (1767) and Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1773). The essentially conservative Parisian public gave a cool reception to Diderot’s plays, were polite to Beaumarchais (Eugénie, 1767; Les Deux Amis, 1770) and applauded only Le Philosophe sans le savoir (1765) by Sedaine (1719–97). Mercier, author of some fifty drames, used the form for more direct forms of political comment and, with La Brouette du vinaigrier (1776), widened its narrow class range (merchants and financiers) by writing of the problems