The Saint-Laurent Fair (Marc-Antoine Legrand, Comédies, Ribou, 1709) - Rauly

Arthur Heulard, who reproduces this engraving in his book La Foire Saint-Laurent, son histoire et ses spectacles (Gallica Bnf 8-Z LE SENNE-6937 ), writes about it in 1878:

La Foire Saint-Laurent, a comedy by Le Grand, lists bullfights, the Turk from Italy, the Homme sans bras and the Homme aux tableaux changeants among the Fair's entertainments in 1709.
The armless man, whose sign can be seen in the accompanying print, was the "victory", the triumph "of the Fair", says Le Grand. He gave himself away as being from the Indies.

In a note, he adds the following details:

Note 1. La Foire Saint-Laurent, comedy in verse and in one act, followed by an entertainment (music by Gilliers), first performed at the Comédie française, after the tragedy of Arminius, on Tuesday, September 10, 1709.

Note 2. This small engraving, obviously intended as a frontispiece to Le Grand's play, is part of the collection of M. A. Bonnardot, who kindly entrusted it to us for reproduction. It is an extremely rare piece, of which Mr. Bonnardot has never come across a second copy, and all the more precious as it is perhaps the only surviving figurative representation of the Saint-Laurent fair.
It features the signature of Rauly, the name of a painter associated in 1711 with Catherine Baron for the operation of a lodge at the fair, and who may well be the author of the print.

The engraving in fact appears on the frontispiece of La Foire S.Laurent, Paris, Pierre Ribou, 1709 (Bnf Gallica YF-7300) and Les Comédies de M. Legrand comédien du Roy, A Paris, chez Pierre Ribou, 1709, avec Approbation & Privilège du Roy, reproduced here (this edition does not appear in the Bnf catalog).