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The theatre to which he has introduced us, is immeasurably beyond the old one which he found. To say that he found, in the visible universe, a little wooden theatre of Thespis, a treteau or shed of vagrants, and that he presented us, at a price of toil and of anxiety that cannot be measured, with a Roman colosseum, that is to say nothing.
In the old hôtel of the Lesdiguières family, rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, the “Carillon” opened its doors in 1893, and quickly conquered a place in the public favor, the inimitable fun and spirits of Tiercy drawing crowds to the place. The famous “Tréteau de Tabarin,” which to-day holds undisputed precedence over all the cabarets of Paris, was among the last to appear.
If one night the end of the journey was the Tréteau de Tabarin the hot and uncomfortable little room rigged up as a theatre, with hard rough wooden benches for the audience, and vague lights, and bare and dingy stage where men and women whose names I have forgotten read and recited and sang the chansons rosses that "all Paris" flocked there to hear it was to have the argument from which we had freshly come continued and settled by one of the inspired young poets.
And almost simultaneously he gave the order: "Guards, take the condemned away!" Juve, who had returned to court with Fandor, spoke to the young journalist. "'Gad!" he exclaimed, "I know what pluck is. That man is a truly remarkable man: he never turned a hair!" The final curtain had fallen upon the first performance of the new drama at the Grand Treteau.
The theatre to which he has introduced us, is immeasurably beyond the old one which he found. To say that he found, in the visible universe, a little wooden theatre of Thespis, a treteau or shed of vagrants, and that he presented us, at a price of toil and of anxiety that cannot be measured, with a Roman colosseum, that is to say nothing.
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