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(17**-18**) Swiss immigrant and French theatre entrepeneur, dance- and music- instructor, amateur performer, and possibly a printer, at the Cape during the early 1800s .  
 
(17**-18**) Swiss immigrant and French theatre entrepeneur, dance- and music- instructor, amateur performer, and possibly a printer, at the Cape during the early 1800s .  
  
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[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1928 at times gives his name as [[L.H. Meurant]], but this cannot have been the same [[Louis Henri Meurant]] discussed elsewhere, since the plays referred to must have been put on when he was about 13 or 14 years of age.  
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Possibly the father of [[Louis Henri Meurant]].
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== Theatre activities ==
 
== Theatre activities ==
  
  
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He was a member of [[C.E. Boniface]]'s society,  [[Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense]].  Appeared for them as a dancer in [[Den Burger Edelman]] as Kaatje and a member of the corps de ballet. 
 
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(A possibility is that he had among his friends other theatre people, including the playwrights [[J. Suasso de Lima]] and [[C.E. Boniface]], and he apparently published some of their first writings in [[Afrikaans]]).
 
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Possibly the father of [[Louis Henri Meurant]].
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 10:11, 30 June 2014

(17**-18**) Swiss immigrant and French theatre entrepeneur, dance- and music- instructor, amateur performer, and possibly a printer, at the Cape during the early 1800s .

Possibly the father of Louis Henri Meurant.

Theatre activities

Sources

Bosman, 1928: p 49, 84, 261295,

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