Ernest Noirot

JeanBaptiste Ernest Noirot was a French comic actor, photographer, explorer and colonial administrator in Senegal and French Guinea in West Africa. He became involved in scandal and was suspended in 1905 when two of his protegs were accused of extortion and other abuses of power, but later he was reinstated.

JeanBaptiste Ernest Noirot was born at BourbonnelesBains in Haute Marne onAugust 1851, son of a timber merchant. He served as a volunteer in the FrancoPrussian War of 187071. For a while he worked at the Folies Bergre and the Folies Dramatiques in Paris as a comic actor. He seems to have worked at the Folies Bergre until 1880. His personnel file says he was also a publicist.

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