Tabarin, the stage name of Antoine Girard (or perhaps Jean Salomon; the record is muddled), performed skits and farces alongside a quack doctor called Mondor (possibly his brother, Philippe) in Paris’s Place Dauphine from approximately 1618 to 1625. In 1622, two anonymous admirers published separate collections of his work: the first, the Recueil général des rencontres, questions, demandes et autres oeuvres tabariniques, is excerpted here. He left the capital mid-decade, either to tour the countryside or enter the landed gentry, and purportedly died soon after.