Nicolas-Médard Audinot (also ''Odinot'', ''Oudinot'' (7 June 1732, Paris – 21 May 1801) was a French actor, singer, impresario, and puppeteer. He first played at the Comédie Italienne. In 1762, he set up a puppeteer theatre at foire Saint-Germain where each character was an imitation of an actor of the Comédie-Italienne. His wood comedians attracted the crowd, and soon Audinot founded the

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where he substituted children to puppets. In 1772, he presented grand

pantomime Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser extent) in other English-speaking ...

s which made his fortune. He authored ''Le Tonnelier'', an opéra comique presented with success (music by Gossec,

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and Trial).

Bibliography

* Michel Faul
Les Tribulations de Nicolas-Médard Audinot, fondateur du théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Symétrie, Lyon, 2013
. * Laurent Turcot, « De la définition du lieu théâtral populaire : police et spectateurs du boulevard à Paris au XVIIIe siècle », Revue d’histoire du théâtre. no 3, 231, 2006, . * Laurent Turcot, « Directeur, comédiens et police : relations de travail dans les spectacles populaires à Paris au XVIIIe siècle », Histoire, Économie et Société, janvier-Mars 2004 (1), 23e année, .

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Nicolas-Médard Audinot
on data.bnf.fr 1732 births 1801 deaths French puppeteers French theatre managers and producers 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 18th-century French male actors French male stage actors Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery {{France-actor-stub