La comédie Française
The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is a French cultural institution founded in 1680 and residing since 1799 in the Salle Richelieu in the heart of the Palais-Royal in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
It is the only national theater in France with a permanent troupe of actors, the Troupe des Comédiens-Français. Although he had been dead for seven years when the troupe was created, Molière is considered the "patron" of the institution, nicknamed the "House of Molière". The chair in which he died during a performance of Le Malade imaginaire is still on display at the back of the bust gallery, after the Foyer Public!