To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 16:45:29 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppeteer terrorist from Maryland


Oops, I went a little bit too quick on the send button.
The info was indeed in the catalogue, which I keep safely in my puppetry 
bookshelf.

Here is an instant translation:

"On Rue d'Aiguillon and sometimes on the Place du Marché (marketplace) in 
Quebec City, the "Thé=E2tre du P=E8re Marseilles" brought laughters to French 
Canadians for more than fifty years.
The puppeteer, assisted by M=E8re Marseilles (Mother Marseilles), was 
showcasing the celebrities of the time: a narcissistic Louis XV, a long and 
langorous Mme de Pompadour, an unglier-than-life Voltaire, a democratic 
Franklin, a Montcalm with "firy eyes". According to Philippe de Gaspé, 
during the Patriot rebellion of 1837-1838, the theatre was ransacked by the 
English, who then paraded with the inanimated dolls as a sign of victory."

Source:
Le Grand Monde de La Marionnette
by: Le Musée de la Civilisation (Québec)
ISBN 2- 551-09994-3
(made for the exhibition of the same name, in 1988)

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