[The Briochés: a family of marionette operators]

In the 17th and 18th centuries, empiries were travelling in Europe, coming, in majority from actual Italy. To attract the crowds, they put up boards on the street and play some pantomimes, parades or improvised scenes. In the 17th century this street show, little or none at all printed, was in a normal way in the day life. In the 18th century this street show is still alive and whole families as the Brioché, the Contugi, the Toscano, the Ricci, the Borsari have transmitted the art of the stage and the empiric practice. A few individuals of these families moved from empirics to be graduate dentists. In other families of dentists as the Talma or Fauchard it is the stage which brought some.