Gaultier-Garguille

See also: Gaultier

Hugues Guéru , called Fléchelles or Gaultier-Garguille , actor and Poet, born with Sées towards 1581 and died with Paris the December 10th 1633.

Into the joke S which it represented, it often introduced of the verses grivois of its composition.

The fairs at the time were, by the difficulty of communication, of the privileged places of exchanges and meetings. The openings of fair corresponded in general to some great festival of the Church and were done with spectacular ceremonies. The opening of the fair of Pre to Rouen is the “theater” chosen by our author for his joke which contains details of manners, descriptions of habits and characters known.

September 5th 1620, it marries Aléonor Solomon, daughter-in-law of the actor Tabarin. The marriage certificate specifies that Hugues Guéru “is aagé of trente-huict years or approximately”, which gives birth to it about 1581 or 1582, and not in 1573 nor in 1593, as its biographers repeat it.

It specialized in the roles of old men initially to the Théâtre of the Marsh, then with the Hôtel of Burgundy. It was thin, with long fine legs and a large face, also never played he without his mask with large pointed beard; it carried a black cap and punt, black escarpins and handles of red plank, a pourpoint and fit black plank. Especially famous under the name of Gaultier-Garguille in a repertory of jokes, he played some times also the kings in serious parts under the pseudonym of Fléchelles .

He also wrote a collection of songs and some prologs printed in 1631.

Notice

In its XIIIe satire, the poet Mathurin Régnier déclame: “With the remainder not to save, ny Gaultier, nor Garguille”.

In the edition of 1729, it is known as this: “Gaultier and Garguille were two buffoons who played in the jokes before the French theater had improved. Their names passed in proverb, to distinguish from the people méprisables and without distinction”.

This way of speaking seems former to our author, Huges Guéru, because in the same book one reads the following worms, under the name of Bonaventure Of Périers, appeared in 1557: “Only Laugh says it, and you road metal, if it were Gaultier or if it were Garguille”.

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