L. Meurant
(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 .
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 13or 14.
Theatre activities
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.
(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).
Possibly the father of Louis Henri Meurant.
Sources
Bosman, 1928: p 49, 84, 261295,
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