Vulgar words in Paris as It Was and as It Is (Page 1)
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The iconoclasts proceeded not with the impetuous fury of fanatics, but with the extravagant foolery of atheistical buffoons.
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"From this little intrigue," adds Brantome, "sprang that brave and valiant bastard of Orleans, Count Dunois, the pillar of France, and the scourge of the English."
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In a coffeehouse of the _Foire St. Ovide_, in Paris, were placed ten blind beggars, muffled up in grotesque dresses and long pointed caps, with large paste-board spectacles on their nose, without glass: music and lights were set before them; and one of them was characterized as Midas, with the ears of an ass, and the addition of a peacock's tail, spread behind him.
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It was occupied by a sort of bastard _spectacle_, with the actors of which they were then obliged to form an association.
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He had played in the provincial theatres; but, in order to overcome every obstacle which might be opposed to his _début_, he became a pupil of DUGAZON, an actor of comedy, and what is more singular, of one more frequently a buffoon than a comedian.
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MARTIN made his _début_ in 1783 at the _Théâtre de Monsieur_ in the company of Italian buffoons.