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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Singular accident in a French theatre. (search)
e end of the second act, a youth of 17, dressed in a blouse and trousers, by trade a currier, Rene Tessier by name, living at Nantes, Place du Port Communeau, with his father, having gone out, returnehat any heavy object in falling from the fourth could hardly reach the pit. The best chance for Tessier would have been, owing to this arrangement, to make a perpendicular fall and alight on some pad happened if there had been more empty seats in the sallie than was the case. In his fall, Tessier did in fact hit against the soldier, Alphonse Bretel, shoemaker to the supernumerary company ofn his way the youth was precipitated a distance of several metres. By an extraordinary chance, Tessier, whose arms and legs were stretched out, and who, as persons who saw him during his frightful fthe young workman had sustained no fracture. Being carried out to the cafe of the theatre, Tessier was able to sit upon a stool, his arms crossed on a table, and his head resting upon his arms.