he was gone, by Boileau and Voltaire. Tabarin became the French eponym of any comic performer of a street booth. It was taken up as a cabaret that was made immortal by a Paul Colin poster which epitomized the 1920s. Publications Inventaire universel des oeuvres de Tabarin, attributed to Tabarin, published in 1622 References John S. Powell, Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680 page 9 External links Inventaire universel des oeuvres de Tabarin (1622) at Gallica "Scharlatanerie": (in German); illus. a contemporary print showing the street theatre set-up Theatre in France Commedia dell'arte 17th-century French people