Auguste Tuaillon

Auguste Boffy, "the smallest conscript of France." (1893 engraving).

Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon, called Boffy, (18 March 1873 – 12 November 1907) was a French dwarf chansonnier.

Biography Auguste Ignace Tuaillon was aged about five years when growth slowed or even stopped. His major muscular weakness preventing him from taking part in farm work, Auguste earned some money by performing from the age of fifteen as a freak in Luxeuil-les-Bains and Nancy. In 1893, on the occasion of his call for military recruitment, Augustus was reported by newspapers as "the smallest conscript of France." At twenty-three, his size was a little less than one meter (0.99 cm).

Shortly before 1896, Auguste arrived in Paris. First employed in a coffee shop close to the Gare de Lyon,

On 12 November 1907, after a fortnight of illness, Auguste Tuaillon died of tuberculosis at the age of 34 at the hôpital Lariboisière. Grief was led by his friend the dwarf Delphin, like him from the Southern Vosges. The burial took place at Cimetière parisien de Pantin, where Xavier Privas, another friend of the deceased, said some words.