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Mons. Chabert | The Fire King's extraordinary exploits

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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1,500 - 2,500 USD

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Mons. Chabert

Theatre Royal, Brighton ... Mons. Chabert, The Fire King. Brighton: Fleet, [1830]


Broadside playbill (401 x 178 mm). Printed in an assortment of types, engraving showing Monsieur Chabert in the Temple of Fire; not examined out of frame, linen-backed, old folds, a few small closed tears and losses. Framed and glazed with Plexiglas. 


Monsieur Chabert here advertises his "Extraordinary Exploits, consisting of Swallowing Poisons, Resisting Fires, &c. &c..." His act culminated in the so-called Temple of Fire, wherein Chabert enclosed himself in an "immense Body of Flame till one entire Suit of Apparel is consumed on his person." 

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