Detail from Benjamin Roubaud's “The Grand March of Posterity” (1840). Here we see Eugène Scribe (left) leading a procession of vaudevillistes (right), including Michel Masson and Claude-Louis-Marie de Rochefort.
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Political instability, popular unrest, and an impending pandemic? Welcome to France in the early 1830s. Vlad Solomon explores what made Parisians laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.
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The Grand March of Posterity (Detail)
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