After the death of Jean-Baptiste Deburau in 1846, Jean-Charles Deburau followed in his father's footsteps, and his successor was Paul Legrand, who made Pierrot known worldwide as a sentimental clown. For 20 years at the Théâtre des Funambules, the great French mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796–1846) played Pierrot as the pathetic, white-robed lover eternally mooning over the beautiful Columbine. The clown hero of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera I pagliacci (1892) was a later use of a Pierrot-like figure. Pagliacci (Italian pronunciation: [paʎˈʎattʃi]; literal translation, "Clowns") is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo.It is the composer's only opera that is still widely performed. Other Pierrots took advantage of the hour and "imitated" Deburau's success, probably in the old Commedia tradition. Opera companies have frequently staged Pagliacci with Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, a double bill known colloquially as "Cav and Pag".