Théâtre de l’ante : Un Monsieur attendait…

Who hasn't dreamed of being a child of Paradise?
In the first half of the 19th century, it was a fairly straightforward affair: all you needed was to be a Parisian, a lover of high emotions and popular tunes. All you had to do was find yourself in a theater on the Boulevard du Temple, on the very top floor (where seats were cheap). On stage, you could follow the trials and tribulations of young girls abandoned by stone-hearted scoundrels; honest fathers odiously persecuted by shady, ruthless creditors, and finally reduced to debtors? prison; grieving mothers, torn apart by the heinous theft of a child...