Troupier
In the beginning, a comic troupier is a comic artist following his occupation in front of troops.
Starting from the end of the 19th century, the comic troupier became a kind for artists of Café-concert and of Music-hall, generally equipped with military clothing, which interprets Sketch are or of the parodic songs related to the life of soldier.
The first known artist of the kind is Éloi Ouvrard, which is pointed out around 1876-1877. But the comic troupier develops truly with his son, Gaston Ouvrard, and will count several representatives emblematic like Polin, Dranem, Charles-Joseph Pasquier, known as Bach.
Like other artists of the time, Fernandel, Maurice Knight, Raimu, Rellys and Louis-Jacques Boucot began their career as a comic troupier.
The kind knows its apogee around the First World War and dies out little by little with the disappearance of its principal representatives.
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