
After "Je m'en vais mais l'État demeure", Hugues Duchêne adapts Bertrand Guillot's historical novel, "L'abolition des privilèges". The virtuoso solo performed by Maxime Taffanel plunges the audience right into the heart of the Estates General of 1789.
It is a state in chronic deficit, where the richest escape taxation. A regime on its last legs. A people at the end of their tether, demanding justice but seeing nothing forthcoming. A rich but stagnant country, prey to the vagaries of a dysfunctional climate. Such was France in the summer of 1789. Until one night, in Versailles, everything changed. It was the night of 4 August.
Performed in a quadri-frontal space by an actor playing a dozen characters, L'abolition des privilèges is a sprint that gives the feeling that History has suddenly accelerated.
Theatre
Running time: 50 minutes
Recommended for ages 14 and up
Free seating - seated (limited capacity)
Rate C: €10 to €18
Cast: Maxime Taffanel and Baptiste Dezerees - Production: Le Royal Velours - Coproduction: La Rose des Vents - Scène nationale de Villeneuve d'Ascq (59) - La Maison de la Culture d'Amiens (80)
- Le Phénix, Scène nationale de Valenciennes (59) Le Royal Velours is supported by the Région Hauts-de-France and the DRAC Hauts-de-France for the creation of L'abolition des privilèges - by the City of Paris for the presentation of L'abolition des privilèges at Théâtre 13. Home in residence Maison de la culture d'Amiens (80) - Théâtre 13 - Paris (75) - La Rose des Vents - Scène nationale de Villeneuve d'Ascq (59) - Théâtre du Nord - Centre Dramatique National Lille Tourcoing Hauts de France (59) Coproduction Avignon 2024 et 2025 Les singulières - Le Théâtre du Train Bleu - Le Royal Velours - ACME. In 2024, with support from the Hauts-de-France Region as part of the Hauts-de-France en Avignon programme. In 2025, with the support of ESAD.
Performed in a quadri-frontal space by an actor playing a dozen characters, L'abolition des privilèges is a sprint that gives the feeling that History has suddenly accelerated.
Theatre
Running time: 50 minutes
Recommended for ages 14 and up
Free seating - seated (limited capacity)
Rate C: €10 to €18
Cast: Maxime Taffanel and Baptiste Dezerees - Production: Le Royal Velours - Coproduction: La Rose des Vents - Scène nationale de Villeneuve d'Ascq (59) - La Maison de la Culture d'Amiens (80)
- Le Phénix, Scène nationale de Valenciennes (59) Le Royal Velours is supported by the Région Hauts-de-France and the DRAC Hauts-de-France for the creation of L'abolition des privilèges - by the City of Paris for the presentation of L'abolition des privilèges at Théâtre 13. Home in residence Maison de la culture d'Amiens (80) - Théâtre 13 - Paris (75) - La Rose des Vents - Scène nationale de Villeneuve d'Ascq (59) - Théâtre du Nord - Centre Dramatique National Lille Tourcoing Hauts de France (59) Coproduction Avignon 2024 et 2025 Les singulières - Le Théâtre du Train Bleu - Le Royal Velours - ACME. In 2024, with support from the Hauts-de-France Region as part of the Hauts-de-France en Avignon programme. In 2025, with the support of ESAD.
Rates
Rates
Basic price adult
18€
Discounted rate
14€
Discounted rate
10€
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Opening times
Opening times
On 21 March 2026
- 20:30 at 21:20