Category : Arts
Gender : Man
Born : 1584
Death : 1626
Period : Renaissance
Tabarin made a sudden entrance on the small outdoor stages in Paris’s Place Dauphine and Pont-Neuf, as a ‘master-operator’, selling potions and engaging in farcical dialogue with his elder brother, Philippe Girard, known as Mondor. He improvised monologues, called upon passers-by, and conversed with the crowd. The style of his buffooneries is still famous to this day, and is even referred to in French as ‘tabarinade’. Around 1628, retreated to Chantecoq, where he purchased a manor, the Seigniory of Couldray and of Fréty.
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