Excerpt from The Barber of ParisTurlupin, if you prefer, as that's the name they give him at the theatre, and that he's best known by in the city, too. He doesn't encourage melancholy. He came here with that other man, who acts with him, plays the old men's parts, they say, and speaks the prologues before the plays.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.