Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan
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Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (1824–1893) was a French
actress.
The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan
and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan
, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy.
The soubrette
part, entrusted for more than 150 years at the Comédie-Française
to a succession of artists of the first rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on May 19, 1841, as Dorine in Tartuffe
, and Lise in Rivaux deux-mêmes.
She was immediately admitted pensionnaire, and at the end of eighteen months unanimously elected sociétaire. She soon became a great favorite, not only in the plays of Molière
and de Regnard
, but also in those of Marivaux
. On her retirement from the stage in 1866, she made an unhappy marriage with Edmond David de Gheest (d. 1885), secretary to the Belgian legation in Paris.
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France
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actress.
The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan
Augustine Susanne Brohan
Augustine Susanne Brohan was a French actress.She was born in Paris. She entered the Conservatoire at the age of eleven, and took the second prize for comedy in 1820, and the first in 1821...
and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan
Ethelie Madeleine Brohan
Éthélie Madeleine Brohan was a French actress.The second daughter of the actress Augustine Susanne Brohan, like her sister, she also took first prize for comedy at the Conservatoire ....
, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy.
The 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:...
part, entrusted for more than 150 years at the Comédie-Française
Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theaters in France. It is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris....
to a succession of artists of the first rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on May 19, 1841, as Dorine in Tartuffe
Tartuffe
Tartuffe is a comedy by Molière. It is one of his most famous plays.-History:Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664...
, and Lise in Rivaux deux-mêmes.
She was immediately admitted pensionnaire, and at the end of eighteen months unanimously elected sociétaire. She soon became a great favorite, not only in the plays of Molière
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
and de Regnard
Jean-François Regnard
Jean-François Regnard , "the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century", was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681....
, but also in those of Marivaux
Pierre de Marivaux
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux , commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist....
. On her retirement from the stage in 1866, she made an unhappy marriage with Edmond David de Gheest (d. 1885), secretary to the Belgian legation in Paris.
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