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Victor-Napoléon Vuillerme-Dunand

French puppeteer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ3557095 ↗
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Victor-Napoléon Vuillerme-Dunand (1810 in Turin – 4 May 1876) was a 19th-century French puppeteer whose family originated from Jura. He was one of the greatest manipulators of the théâtre de Guignol in the nineteenth century, especially the character of Gnafron. He is the author of one of three original sources of the classical repertoire of the Lyon theater dating from 1852.

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“Victor-Napoléon Vuillerme-Dunand” enters the record as french puppeteer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Victor-Napoléon, Vuillerme-Dunand and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Victor-Napoléon Vuillerme-Dunand” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.