Gustave Larroumet (1852–1903) , a man of letters and arts, wasa theater critic and in 1896 he came to Greece as a correspondent of the newspaper Le Temps for the Olympic games. A few months after returning to Parison October 24 , 1896 , he gave a public conference at the Institut de Franceentitled: “At the Bacchus Theater”, which was published in Le Temps thefollowing day. The present paper comments on this text by proposing a double reading: the first refers to the interest of the Frenchman in the theater,as the place where Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes presented the most important works of Greek dramaturgy, and thus as the idealplace for the unification of all the virtues of Western culture; the second underlines the connection attempted by the author, as he considers the Frenchculture to be a continuation of that of the Greeks and Romans, of the historyof theater with major issues of arts, culture and politics of the 19th century.
