Baron (Louis Bouchené), actor

Also known as: Baron, Baron des Variétés

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Who he was

Louis Bouchené, known as Baron (Alençon, 20 September 1837 – Asnières-sur-Seine, 1 March 1920), comic actor of the Théâtre des Variétés, where he first appeared in July 1866 in Le Photographe (fr.wikipedia «Baron (acteur)»). Mon Journal t.12 index: «Baron (Louis Bouchenez dit), acteur : 208, 212».

In the diary

  • 1 February 1879 (084.0146): «Ah ! ce soir nous avons bien ri aux Variétés "Le grand Casimir" avec Léonce, Baron, Dupuy et Céline Chaumont» (Lecocq's opéra-bouffe, created there on 11 January 1879).
  • 9 February 1879 (084.0192): at the Opera ball Marie disguises herself with «une poitrine énorme et la voix de Baron des "Variétés"».

Not the «baron de je ne sais quoi» of the Antonsky ball (081.0602), who is the baron Schenck (BARON_SCHENCK).

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