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Bobèche

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 700+ words | Copyright

Bobèche [ Antoine Mandelot] (1791–c.1840), French farce-player, well known on the boulevard du Temple where, with red jacket and grey tricorne hat with butterfly antennae, he amused the holiday crowds with his parades in company with Galimafré [ Auguste Guérin] (1790–1870). Both became extremely popular, and were invited to private houses to entertain the guests, but the topical jokes of Bobèche offended Napoleon and he was banished. He returned under the Restoration and was again successful, but later went into management in the provinces and was not heard of again. Galimafré, who refused to act after the fall of Napoleon in 1814, joined the stage staff of the Gaîté and elsewhere. A play by the brothers Cogniard based on the lives of these two comedians was produced at the Palais-Royal in 1837.

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