The creation of the Académie française is often interpreted as being the result of a deliberate policy of the Monarchy to promote the French language and enlist literature to its cause. However, it should be seen as a compromise: the Académie française protected writers from the suspicion of "libertinage" that hung over them after the trial of Théophile, and created an autonomous space for them, a public status that was essential for the development and transmission of the arts.