“France’s most venerable establishment theatre, the 328-year-old Comédie-Française, has become embroiled in a row with a cutting-edge drama company over the place of high art in Paris’s rough suburbs.” With the backing of the Ministry of Culture, the Comédie-Française decided that a smaller theatre company, MC 93, “was to become its entry point into the suburbs” — a move MC 93 views as a hostile takeover.