Boulevard du Temple

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

Boulevard du Temple, fairground in Paris which became a centre of entertainment, with circuses, booths (in which Bobèche and Galimafré revived memories of the earlier parades), children's theatres, and puppet-shows. During the Revolution a number of small permanent theatres were built there (see FUNAMBULES and GAÎTÉ) in which actors such as Deburau and Frédérick appeared in plays, often by the elder Dumas and later by Pixérécourt. From the latter's works it got its nickname of ‘the Boulevard of Crime’. The whole picturesque scene, with its sideshows, waxworks, fireworks, museums, cafés, concerts, and perambulating ballad-singers, was swept away in Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1862, and the boulevard Voltaire now occupies most of the site.

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