10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLAQUEUR»
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claqueur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Mémoires D'un
Claqueur: Contenant la Théorie Et la Pratique ...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
Louis Castel Robert, 2010
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Sketches of Paris and the Parisians
A distinguished claqueur has just died at his country-seat in the south of France;
for it seems that a claqueur may acquire both distinction acd a comfortable
independence, like any owe else. His father was a clief tle claque before him,
and ...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 1856
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Hector Berlioz; Selections from His Letters, and Aesthetic, ...
"The gloved claqueur, dressed like a dandy, stretches his arms affectedly out of
his box and claps slowly, almost without noise, and for the eye merely ; he thus
says to the whole house : ' See ! I condescend to applaud.' "The enthusiastic ...
Hector Berlioz, William Foster Apthorp, 1879
If it is true that the stage castigat ridendo mores, nobody ought to have manners
more chastened than the claqueur ; for nobody frequents the theatres so
assiduously as he does in the way of his business. If he sometimes protects
mediocrity, ...
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Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 18241828
Castel—an itinerant claqueur—was hired to ply his trade at the Odéon.101 By
1827, the administration of the Odéon had begun to issue markers allowing
members of the audience to come and go in the interval. When the expulsion
began, ...
6
Theatre in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine
Balzac insists upon the fact that the occupation of claqueur is that of the lowest of
the low. With the exception of the chefs de claque, the claque is treated by
historians as a collective body and this is the only instance in La Comedie
humaine ...
Linzy Erika Dickinson, 2000
If it is true that the stage castigat ridendo mores, nobody ought to have manners
more chastened than the claqueur ; for nobody frequents the theatres so
assiduously as he does in the way of his business. If he sometimes protects
mediocrity, ...
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, 1838
The profession of claqueur is therefore not to be despised, since it is so profitable
, and with a view of initiating the public into its mysteries, one of Messieurs les
Chevaliers du Lustre, as the gang are sometimes called, published his memoirs
in ...
Eneas Sweetland Dallas, 1869
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
We take the annexed picture of a Parisian 'claqueur* from an admirable paper in
the last number of the ' Dublin University Magazine.' The principal theatres of the
French metropolis, Mr. Sanderson informs us, in his entertaining volume, ' The ...
10
Evenings with the Orchestra
The claqueur who is carried away (some do exist) applauds fast, hard, and for a
great length of time. During his applause he looks to right and left, and these
exhibitions failing to satisfy him, he stamps, he shouts: "Bravo-o-o! Bravo-o-o!
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLAQUEUR»
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claqueur is used in the context of the following news items.
Prejudgment rife over Zaky Mallah affair
(Never mind the claqueur's chorus over at News Corporation.) Advertisement. Prejudgment is rife. For example, Saturday's Herald editorial ... «The Age, Jun 15»
Nigeria: Time for a national rethink
Yet Buhari claqueur (oti mkpu in Igbo) Soyinka has not advanced beyond that change mantra in support of clue-filled Buhari! All that ... «Daily Sun, Mar 15»
Ramón Vargas, la alergia y los abucheadores a sueldo
Ser claqueur es un oficio viejo y mal visto (en la Ópera de París ya había desde el siglo XVI). Lo peor es que en Bellas Artes abucheaban a ... «El Economista, Jun 14»
Classical Beat: The culture of clapping, a wish for more spontaneity
In France, a group of professional applauders came to be known as a claque, and a member of the group was a claqueur. “Le Claqueur” was ... «Press Herald, Jun 14»
Musical Briefing: Concert Etiquette
However, some artists refused to bow to them: when Birgit Nilsson received a call from the head claqueur at The Met before her debut as Isolde ... «Limelight Magazine, Sep 12»
Sydney Morning Herald columnist
His studio claqueur was the Telegraph reporter Andrew Clennell, who thought this was ''one of the most left wing reports on law and order''. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 12»
Charlotte Brontë Une page d'amour belge
... de fortune, Constantin Héger a passé quelques années dans la capitale française, jouant notamment le claqueur à la Comédie-Française. «Libération, May 12»
