Louis-Émile-Edmond Duranty
French author and puppeteer
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Louis Duranty was a French author and puppeteer who opened a puppet theatre in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris in 1861. This theatre, however, lacked popular appeal and did not last long in its original form. Duranty's experiment inspired others, leading to the founding of the Theatron Erotikon, a private puppet theatre that ran for two years. He was a literary dilettante who, along with other artistic friends, aimed to present public literary puppet shows.1
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