Antoine Girard Tabarin

Tabarin, Antoine Girard, known as (1584-1626), Parisian farceur. His performances on the Pont-Neuf with his brother, ‘Mondor’, drew large crowds and became a model of popular farce in the early 1620s. Two volumes of rencontres and questions tabariniques, published 1622, suggest the rich, Rabelaisian blend of the scatological, scholarly, and satirical which characterized his improvisations.

[Jonathan Mallinson]