Pasquin

Pasquin is one of the family members many and brilliant servants of comedy of the French theater with.

Pasquin is race of the lackeys of good house, lads full of more than heat than of scruples, which gave much embarrassment to their Masters and whose dynasty starts with Mascarille, with Crispin, with Scapin, to lead to Frontin and Figaro.

It was put in scene by Baron in the Man at good fortunes and in the Vain one and the False Prude , in 1694 by Regnard in Attendez me under the elm , and that then Destouches makes it famous while introducing it into some of its best comedies: the Glorious , Triple Marriage and the Squanderer .

Thereafter one gave the name of “pasquinade” to certain dramatic jokes of a a little commonplace nature, some Lazzi S of a a little doubtful taste, which received this name, undoubtedly because the comic ones of the Comédie-Française, which always did not move back, to excite gaîté of the spectators, in front of effects of this kind, allowed oneself particularly in the character and under the casaque traditional one of Pasquin. Thus, in that of the Man with good fortunes , it was of tradition that the actor, at a given time, flooded his handkerchief of Eau de Cologne and then comes on the Avant-scène to twist it and express the contents of it on the head of the blower, which then hastened to make the dive to escape this baptism from a new kind.

Source

Arthur Pougin, historical and picturesque Dictionary of the theater and arts which are attached to it, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1885, p. 590.

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