“Une grâce, une modestie, un sérieux”: The Reforming Neo-Classicism of Sedaine’s Philosophe sans le savoir

The objective of this article is to explain how Michel-Jean Sedaine’s play Le Philosophe sans le savoir (1765), considered the most successful example drame bourgeois, characterised not only by theatrical innovations advocated Diderot in his writing on drama, but central aspects reforming aesthetic movement that dominated last half eighteenth century, and which has come be known as neo-classicism.