claqueur

• “He detested three things: a Jesuit, a gendarme, and a claqueur at a theatre.”

  The Paris Sketch Book

• “Nature had cast this mild-eyed individual for the part of accompanyist in the comedy we call life; a _rôle_ he sometimes varied as now, with the office of _claqueur_, when an uncommonly clever proof of madame's talent for business drew from him this noiseless tribute of applause.”

  In and out of Three Normady Inns

• “No _claqueur_ ever remembered to have heard the like before.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864

• “The _chatouilleur_, or tickler, a variety of the genus _claqueur_, is in vogue chiefly at the smaller theatres.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847

• “He stands upon a lower grade of the social step-ladder than the _claqueur_; very unjustly, as it appears to us, his scope for the display of original genius being decidedly larger.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847

• “Brunet's tongue was little relished by the imperial _charlatan, -- le claqueur de la Grand Armée_, as he has been called.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847

• “But in any case there will appear in Leipzig as a claqueur”

  Letters

• “Opéra Comique, I often obtained admission to that house as a _claqueur_.”

  My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71

• “Navarrot, the ministerial claqueur, was already applauding”

  His Excellency the Minister

• “IDAMORE, nick-name of Chardin junior while he was _claqueur_ in a theatre on the Boulevard du Temple, Paris.”

  Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1

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