Bobèche (clown), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bobèche (clown)

French actor and circus performer

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1791

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: actor, circus performer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Bobèche (clown)

  • Antoine Mandelot, better known as Bobèche, was a French theatre clown, similar to a Merry Andrew, under the First Empire and the Restoration. He was the son of an upholsterer of the St.
  • Antoine faubourg.
  • He was closely associated with Auguste Guérin, better known as Galimafré.
  • These two comedians were very well known, and performed at the Boulevard du Temple in Paris for twenty years, at a time when theatres, acrobat schools and all kinds of spectacles were very popular.
  • The two men had each abandoned their workshops and took on these simple names when devoting themselves to their profession. As a child, he performed sketches with Guérin, in his father's workshop.
  • This led to them being recruited by a master street acrobat named Dromale.
  • Mandelot become Bobèche, and Guérin become Galimafré. Bobèche was a tall, thin and emaciated boy, who played the standard comedic role of Jocrisse.
  • Performing on trestle stages on the Boulevard du Temple, he wore a costume in the Lower Normandy style, consisting of yellow breeches, patterned stockings, a red jacket, straw-coloured wig, and a small horned hat adorned with a butterfly.
  • One chronicler wrote: "Bobèche was original, blending Janot and Jocrisse, these two excellent creations of Volanges at Brunet.
  • His face was distinguished, his manner shy, but this sardonic shyness reveals what is called a vacuous person from Sologne, which is to say a cunning chap, wily and meek.
  • I can still picture his half-closed eye, his caustic smile, his lower lip raised to give his appearance an astonished, candid appearance.
  • He was a comedian in this great red coat, and under that grey, horned hat, decked out with a butterfly!".

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