Gilles (stock character) disparate Foire genres—puppet shows, comic operas, and every imaginable permutation of both mute and spoken theater—his character began inevitably to coarsen. It is therefore not surprising that Colombine should call Pierrot a "Gille" in Alexis Piron's "L'Ane d'Or" (The Golden Ass, 1725) or that a police report detailing the suspicious goings-on in Lesage's prologue to "Arlequin, valet de Merlin" (Harlequin, Merlin's Valet, 1718) should refer to Pierrot indiscriminately as "Pierrot" or as "Gilles". (It should also not be surprising that, when the illustrious Pierrot Hamoche was forbidden, in 1721, to play "opéras-comiques", impelling Lesage and Dorneval to lay his Pierrot
Martine (character) 2011 when the illustrator Marcel Marlier died at the age of 80. The last book is the 60th, "Martine et le prince mystérieux", published in 2010. Two video games were released in Europe based on the character, however the character has been renamed "Emma" for English-speaking audiences. The games are based on the first and eighth books respectively. The games were recently announced for the U.S. Martine (character) Martine is the title character in a series of books for children originally written in French by the Belgians Marcel Marlier and Gilbert Delahaye and edited by Casterman. The first one, "Martine