person
Victor Capoul
Capoul
also: Капуль
French operatic tenor (1839-1924) whose slicked, center-parted hairstyle ("à la Capoul") became a fashionable men's coiffure across Europe and Russia in the late nineteenth century; referenced here as the devil's own hairstyle.
Reading notes
- A Drunk Man's Conversation with a Sober Devil §1 à la Capoul
A slicked, center-parted men's hairstyle named for the French tenor Victor Capoul, a fashionable affectation Chekhov often mocks in minor characters and now, absurdly, on a devil.