Popular French paradists (street actors) Bobeche (Antoine Mandelard) and Galimafre (Thomas Auguste Guérin), performing at Boulevard du Temple, Napoleonic era. Two boys drink tissane or cocoa from an itinerant beverage sellar. Wood engraving by Huyot after an anonymous engraving from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.

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