Évariste Gherardi

Évariste Gherardi, né Evaristo Gherardi (Prato, Tuscany, (11 Novembre 1663 – assassinated in Paris 31 August 1700) was an Italian actor and playwright arrived in France at the beginning of the 1670s.

The son of two actors of the Italian troupe, Leonarda Galli et Giovanni Gherardi, (Spoleto, ?? - Paris, 23 March 1683) nicknamed Flautin, he made his debut at the Théâtre italien de Paris 1 October 1689 in the role of Arlequin.

He wrote Le Retour de la foire de Bezons for this theatre and collected numerous anonymous plays in six volumes titled Théâtre italien, ou Recueil de toutes les scènes françaises qui ont été jouées sur le théâtre italien de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne (1694–1700).

He never took French citizenship.

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