PLACE OF LAUGHTER.
FAMOUS PARIS PREMISES CLOSED. "An Bon Rire Gaulois" (The Good Gallic Laugh), a shop which has been known to British visitors to Paris since the nineties, has been closed. In a notice pasted on the window the owner, Pore Roget, thanked his French and foreign customers for their patronage of his curious business oyer such a long period—a business devoted to the raw material of practical joking. The place was at the corner of the Boulevard des Capueines and the Rue Caumartin. Who has not gazed in admiration or astonishment at. the heterogeneous collection' of objects displayed by Pere Roget?
It is for deceptive paraphernalia, besides the usual "souvenirs" of Paris," that "The Good Gallic Laugh" is famous. Astonishing ingenuity has been put into the conception and manufacture of a multiplicity of such things as match-boxes that are not matchboxes, and poached eggs and helpings of cheese which are pure traps for the unwary. The closing of the shop raises the"" interesting question: Is practical joking now completely out of fashion?
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 211, 19 June 1933, Page 8
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174PLACE OF LAUGHTER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 211, 19 June 1933, Page 8
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