Actors and dancers in the Cafe Touchard, Paris. On rue de Boucheries near the Halle aux blés and known as the Actors' Cafe, it was the place for provincial or foreign actors to find roles in Paris. Le Cafe des Comediens from Etienne de Jouy's Paris Spectator, 1814. Frontispiece du tome III de L'Hermite de la Chaussée-d'Antin. Illustration by Alexandre-Joseph Desenne from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.

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