Jane Hading was a French

France

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 actress. Her real name was Jeanne Alfredine Trefouret.

She was born at Marseille

Marseille

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, where her father was an actor at the Gymnase.
She was trained at the local Conservatoire and was engaged in 1873 for the theatre at Algiers

Algiers

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, and afterwards for the Khedivial theatre at Cairo

Cairo

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, where she played, in turn, coquette, soubrette

Soubrette

A soubrette is a female stock character in opera and theatre. The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy".-Theater:...

 and Ingenue

Ingenue (stock character)

See also Disingenuous, which is not quite the antonym that it may seem!The ingénue is a stock character in literature, film, and a role type in the theatre; generally a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent and wholesome. Ingenue may also refer to a new young actress or one typecast in...

 parts. Expectations had been raised by her voice, and when she returned to Marseille she sang in operetta, besides acting in Ruy Blas.

Her Paris

Paris

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 debut was in La Chaste Suzanne at the Palais Royal, and she was again heard in operetta at the Renaissance. In 1883 she had a great success at the Gymnase in Le Maitre de forges. In 1884 she married Victor Koning (1842-1894), the manager of that theatre, but divorced him in 1887.

In 1888 she toured America with Coquelin, and on her return helped to give success to Lavedan's Prince d'Aurec, at the Vaudeville. Her reputation as one of the leading actresses of the day was now established not only in France but in America and England.

Her later repertoire included Le Demi-monde, Capus

Alfred Capus

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's La Châtelaine, Charles Maurice Donnay

Charles Maurice Donnay

Charles Maurice Donnay , French dramatist, was born of middle-class parents in Paris. Graduated as an engineer of École Centrale Paris, he left the industrial sector to write....

's Retour de Jerusalem, La Princesse Georges by Dumas fils

Alexandre Dumas, fils

Alexandre Dumas, fils was a French author and dramatist. He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, also a writer and playwright.-Biography:...

, and Émile Bergerat

Émile Bergerat

Émile Bergerat was a French poet, playwright and essayist. He used the pseudonyms l'Homme masqué , Caliban and Ariel...

's Plus que reine.