Gianni Gebbia, Mauro Gargano, Dario De Filippo - Le Zouave Jacob (2013)

During the Second Empire in France (1828–1913), a soldier called Jacob drew Parisian crowds by performing so-called miraculous cures. The craze that he created allowed to live from his “miracles” all of his life. He performed a kind of group hypno-therapy, which prefigures the methods used by today's evangelists. One of his specialty was to heal through some loud trombone improvisations, since he was a trombonis in the army as well as insulting the patients in order to cure them. He had an atelier in Rue de la Roquette and his father was selling his picture at the exit to be payed for the seances.