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Claque
Claqueurs Applause by clapping the hands; persons paid for
doing so. M. Sauton, in 1820, established in Paris an office to ensure
the success of dramatic pieces. He was the first to organise the
Parisian claque. The manager sends an order to his office for
any number of claqueurs, sometimes for 500 or even more. The class is
divided into commissaires, those who commit the pieces to memory
and are noisy in pointing out its merits; rieurs, who laugh at
the puns and jokes; pleureurs chiefly women, who are to hold
their pocket-handkerchiefs to their eyes at the moving parts;
chatouilleurs, who are to keep the audience in good humour; and
bisseurs, who are to cry (bis) encore. The Romans had their
Laudicoeni (q.v.).
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