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SALTARE IN BANCO

Photographer Pierre Manning “Saltare In Banco” is a street entertainer (performing arts). He does all sorts of tricks and plays to amuse the populace astonishment at fairs. The troupes were occurring from town to town the Ancien Regime. The performances were diverse, from a bear roaming the playwrights who would give French literature its letters of nobility (give the life of Molière)