Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Tableaux Vivants

(French, living pictures). Representations of statuary groups by living persons, invented by Madame Genlis while she had charge of the children of the Duc d'Orléans.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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