Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Czech-French actor and mime (died 1846)

Jean-Gaspard Deburau

Czech-French mime

Jean-Gaspard Deburau, sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a Czech-French mime. He performed from 1816 to the year of his death at the Théâtre des Funambules, which was immortalized in Marcel Carné's poetic-realist film Children of Paradise (1945); Deburau appears in the…