LES EFFETS THÉRAPEUTIQUES DES TABARINADES
THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF TABARINADES

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to analyse the therapeutic effects of laughter, as they are developed in the representations of the street theatre troupe of the Girard brothers, better known as the Tabarin troupe, who had great success in Dauphine Square, near the Pont Neuf in Paris, at the beginning of the 17th century. The tabarinades, beyond their mercantile feature (their initial and main goal was to sell false remedies, the Girard brothers being thus charlatans), had also an important facetious feature, trying to heal the troubled soul of people living difficult times.

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