page_title: Jean-Gaspard Deburau
hierarchical_section_title: Jean-Gaspard Deburau
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796-1846), französischer Pantomime. Zwischen 1840 und 1870 entstandene Lithographie der Druckerei Delaunois in Paris. http://gallica.bnf.fr/anthologie/notices/01565.htm
context_page_description: Jean-Gaspard Deburau, sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a celebrated Bohemian-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; Deburau appears in the film as a major character. His most famous pantomimic creation was Pierrot—a character that served as the godfather of all the Pierrots of Romantic, Decadent, Symbolist, and early Modernist theater and art.
context_section_description: Jean-Gaspard Deburau (born Jan Kašpar Dvořák; July 31, 1796 – June 17, 1846), sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a celebrated Bohemian-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 film (under his stage-name, "Baptiste") as a major character.  His most famous pantomimic creation was Pierrot—a character that served as the godfather of all the Pierrots of Romantic, Decadent, Symbolist, and early Modernist theater and art.
caption: Auguste Bouquet: Portrait of Jean-Gaspard Deburau, 1830
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