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‘Des singes, c’était le narcisse’: class, imitation and performing monkeys in late-eighteenth century Paris

Ignacio Ramos-gay

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Class (set theory)Visual Arts and Performing Arts060402 drama & theatermedia_common.quotation_subjectImitation (music)06 humanities and the artsArtBoulevardHumanities0604 artsmedia_common

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This paper focuses on the use of performing monkeys in boulevard and foire theatres in late eighteenth-century Paris. I will concentrate on the issues raised by ‘Turco,’ Jean-Baptiste Nicolet’s leg...

https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2018.1451946