 Playwrights were personally obligated to obtain official approvals from the Lieutenant-General of Police who read the manuscripts and gave approvals based on the rules revolved around the King as well as the Church and the political notables.Plays could not mock or violate Roman Catholic beliefs and ceremonies, nor it can satirize living public figures (including the monarch)” 
“The Church in France also condemned the theatre as a school for scandal, held all actors to be "ipso facto" excommunicated, and forbade their burial in consecrated ground - which included every cemetery in Paris