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Marquis de Blancmange
Blancmange
also: маркиз Бланманже
An invented French nobleman, comically named after a molded dessert pudding, said to have been taken prisoner in 1812 by one of the museum's decrepit theatrical horses.
Reading notes
- In Winkler's Museum §4 the Marquis de Blancmange
An invented French nobleman whose surname is a comic dessert (blancmange, a molded sweet pudding) rather than an aristocratic name -- part of a running gag in which a decrepit prop-horse is credited with having captured him at Borodino.