Robert Macaire

“Robert Macaire,” caricature of M. Rosolin by Honoré Daumier (1835). Collection: Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. In 1848, the melodrama Fualdès was staged in Paris at the Théâtre de la Gaité on the Boulevard du Temple, popularly known as the “Boulevard of Crime.”[1] Melodrama, pioneered by playwright Guilbert de Pixerécourt at the end of the

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