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Félicia Mallet
Félicia Mallet (1863–1928) was a French comedian, singer and pantomime artist. Career Félicia Mallet was born in Bordeaux in 1863. In 1887 she played the part of Giovanni Paisiello, the court composer, in the first staging of Victorien Sardou's drama '' La Tosca''. In May 1888 she appeared with the ''Cercle Funambulesque'' pantomime company at the Fantaisies-Parisiennes in its first evening of performances, starring in ''Léandre Ambassadeur''. Her performances with the ''Cercle Funambulesque'' launched her into stardom. In 1890 Mallet played Pierrot in a production of ''L'Enfant prodigue'' staged in Paris. In 1893 Maurice Lefèvre dedicated his book ''À travers chants'' to Mallet. In it he presented a defense of popular songs. Georges Wague made his debut as a mime in 1893. Mallet assisted him in developing his own individual style in the years that followed. Wague was an innovative mime artist who became a film actor. Mime was important in the early days of silent fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Chéret
Jules Chéret (31 May 1836 – 23 September 1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of ''Belle Époque'' poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster. Early life and career Born in Paris to a poor but creative family of artisans, Chéret had a very limited education. At age thirteen, he began a three-year apprenticeship with a lithographer and then his interest in painting led him to take an art course at the École Nationale de Dessin. Like most other fledgling artists, Chéret studied the techniques of various artists, past and present, by visiting Paris museums. From 1859 to 1866, he was trained in lithography in London, England, where he was strongly influenced by the British approach to poster design and printing. On returning to France, Chéret created vivid poster ads for the cabarets, music halls, and theaters such as the Eldorado, the Olympia, the Folies Bergère, Théâtre de l'Opéra, the Alcazar d'Été and the Moulin Roug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Gaspard Deburau
Jean-Gaspard Deburau (born Jan KaÅ¡par Dvořák; 31 July 1796 – 17 June 1846), sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a Bohemian-French Mime artist, mime. He performed from 1816 to the year of his death at the Théâtre des Funambules, which was immortalized in Marcel Carné's Poetic realism, poetic-realist film ''Children of Paradise'' (1945); Deburau appears in the film (under his stage-name, "Baptiste") as a major character. His most famous pantomimic creation was Pierrot—a character that served as the godfather of all the Pierrots of Romanticism, Romantic, Decadent movement, Decadent, Symbolism (arts), Symbolist, and early Modernism, Modernist theater and art. Life and career Born in KolÃn, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), Deburau was the son of a Czech servant, KateÅ™ina Králová (or Catherine Graff), and a former French soldier, Philippe-Germain Deburau, a native of Amiens. Philippe turned showman and performed at the head of a nomadic troupe. In 1814 he took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Deaths
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It proclaims the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's four million slaves and immediately frees 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advance. * January 2 – Lucius Tar Painting Master Company (''Teerfarbenfabrik Meirter Lucius''), predecessor of Hoechst, as a worldwide chemical manufacturing brand, founded in a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. * January 4 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany. * January 7 – In the Swiss canton of Ticino, the village of Bedretto is partly destroyed and 29 killed, by an avalanche. * January 8 ** The Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel, in Sheffield, England. ** American Civil War – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Fabre
Émile Fabre (24 March 1869 in Metz, France – 25 September 1955 in Paris) was a French playwright and general administrator of the ''Comédie-Française'' from 1915 to 1936.:227 He was greatly influenced by Balzac as a young man, and most of his best-known plays deal with the sacrifice of personal happiness to the pursuit of wealth.Garreau, Joseph E. (1984)"Fabre, Émile"in Stanley Hochman (ed.) ''McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama'', Vol. 1, p. 136. He also wrote the libretto for Xavier Leroux's opera ''Les cadeaux de Noël'' (The Christmas Gifts) which was a great success when it premiered in Paris in 1915.''Le Figaro'' (13 April 1917)"Courrier des Théâtres" p. 4 Career at the Comédie-Française Fabre was appointed general administrator of the ''Comédie-Française'' on 2 December 1915.:227 According to Susan McCready,During Fabre's tenure, the ''Comédie-Française'' moved from the center of the theatre scene, where theatrical creation and innovation ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Blum
Ernest Blum (15 August 1836 – 18 September 1907) was a French playwright. Biography He made his debut as a writer at the age of sixteen with ''Une femme qui mord''. As a journalist, he was associated with ''Le Charivari'', '' Le Rappel'', ''Le Gaulois'', and other publications. Many of his dramatic works were written in collaboration with Clairville, Flan, Monnier, Brisharre, Eugène Labiche, Raoul Toché and others. The drama of ''Rose Michel'' (1877), of his own composition, ensured his place among the most successful French dramatists of the time. Among the other noteworthy vaudevilles, librettos, and dramas of this versatile writer are the following: ''Les noces de diable'' (1862), ''Rocambole'' (1864), ''La jolie parfumeuse ''La jolie parfumeuse'' is an opéra comique in three acts of 1873 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French language, French libretto was by Hector Crémieux and Ernest Blum. Performance history The opera was premiered at the Théâtre de la R ...' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Anthelme
Paul Anthelme Bourde (23 May 1851 – 27 October 1914) was a French journalist, author and colonial administrator. Self-taught, he became a respected contributor to ''Le Temps'', writing on a broad range of subjects. He was hostile to the poets associated with the Decadent movement and positive about colonial enterprises. He did much to improve agriculture, particularly the cultivation of olives, in Tunisia. Early years Paul Anthelme Bourde was born at Voissant, Isère, on 23 May 1851. His father was a deputy sergeant in the Savoy customs. After Savoy was annexed by France in 1860, the family moved to northern France near the Belgian border, where Bourde studied at the local school in Harcy. He moved on to the Petit Séminaire of Charleville, where he was a classmate of Arthur Rimbaud and the future novelist Jules Mary. He was expelled from the séminaire in 1866 for having planned with his friends to escape and travel to Abyssinia to search for the sources of the Nile. Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanson Réaliste
''Chanson réaliste'' (, ''realist song'') refers to a style of music performed in France primarily from the 1880s until the end of World War II.Sweeney, Regina M. (2001). ''Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music During the Great War'', Wesleyan University Press. p. 23. .Fagot, Sylvain & Uzel, Jean-Philippe (2006). ''Énonciation artistique et socialité: actes du colloque international de Montréal des 3 et 4 mars 2005'', L'Harmattan. pp. 200-203. . (French text) Influenced by literary realism and the naturalist movements in literature and theatre, ''chanson réaliste'' dealt with the lives of Paris's poor and working-class.Frith, Simon (2004). ''Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies'', Routledge. pp. 225-227. .Schechter, Joel (2003). ''Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook'', Routledge. pp. 181-183. Wilson, Elizabeth (1992). ''The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women'', University of California Press. p. 62. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Buffet
Eugénie Buffet (1866–1934) was a French singer who rose to fame in France just prior to World War I. She has been called one of the first,Frith, Simon (2004). ''Chanteuse in the city: the realist singer in French film'', Routledge. pp. 219–220. if not ''the'' first,Conway, Kelley (2004). ''Chanteuse in the city: the realist singer in French film'', University of California Press. pp. 41–51. performer of the ''chanson réaliste'' (realist song) genre. She became a national sensation in France, performing in the fashionable '' cafés-concerts'' of Paris as well as embarking on both national and international tours.Berlanstein, Lenard R. (2001). ''Daughters of Eve: a cultural history of French theater women from the Old Regime to the fin de siècle'', Routledge. p. 203. Her biggest success is said to be her performance of the song "''La Sérénade du Pavé''" (Sidewalk Serenade), written by Jean Varney in 1895. She was also known to perform in the street for charity in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Liébel
Emma Li̩bel (born Aim̩e Medebielle; 13 September 1873 РJanuary 1928) was a French ''chanteuse''. She was one of the pioneers of the ''chanson r̩aliste'' style. Early years Aim̩e Medebielle was born in Pau, Pyr̩n̩es-Atlantiques, France, on 13 September 1873. Her father, Pierre Medebielle, was a carpenter. She made her debut as a singer in the southwest of France, under the German-sounding stage name of Emma Liebel, a partial anagram of her real name. This name appears on a program from the ''Nouveaut̩s'' of Toulouse in 1900. After the start of World War I (1914-1918) she made the stage name more French by adding an acute accent to the first e, making it "Li̩bel" rather than "Liebel". Chanteuse Emma Li̩bel moved to Paris, and appeared at '' Bobino'' before 1909. She was one of the pioneers of the ''chanson r̩aliste'' style in her popular shows, along with F̩licia Mallet, Yvette Guilbert and Eug̩nie Buffet. Other venues where she sang included ''L'Artistic'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Café Concert
A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, notably espresso, latte, and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-caffeinated beverages. In continental Europe, cafés serve alcoholic drinks. A coffeehouse may also serve food, such as light snacks, sandwiches, muffins, fruit, or pastries. Coffeehouses range from owner-operated small businesses to large multinational corporations. Some coffeehouse chains operate on a franchise business model, with numerous branches across various countries around the world. While ''café'' may refer to a coffeehouse, the term "café" generally refers to a diner, British café (colloquially called a "caff"), "greasy spoon" (a small and inexpensive restaurant), transport café, teahouse or tea room, or other casual eating and drinking place. A coffeehouse may share some of the same characteristics of a bar or restaurant, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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