Éthélie Madeleine Brohan (1833–1900) was a French

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. The second daughter of the actress

Augustine Susanne Brohan Augustine Susanne Brohan (22 January 180716 August 1887) was a French actress. Life 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. She served her appr ...

, like her sister, she also took first prize for comedy at the

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(1850). She was engaged at once by the

Comédie-Française The Comédie-Française () or Théâtre-Français () is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state ...

, but instead of making her ''début'' in some play of the repertoire of the theatre, the management put on for her benefit a new comedy by

Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of ma ...

and

Ernest Legouvé Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (; 14 February 180714 March 1903) was a French dramatist. Biography Son of the poet Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (1764–1812), he was born in Paris. His mother died in 1810, and almost immediately after ...

, ''Les Contes de la reine de Navarre'', in which she created the part of Marguerite on 1 September 1850. Her talents and beauty made her a success from the first, and in less than two years from her ''début'' she was elected . In 1853 she married Mario Uchard, from whom she was soon separated, and in 1858 she returned to the Comédie Française in leading parts, until her retirement in 1886. Her name is associated with a great number of plays, besides those in the classical repertoire, notably ''Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie'', ''Par droit de conquète'', ''Les Deux Veuves'', and ''Le Lion amoureux'', in which, as the marquise de Maupas, she had one of her greatest successes.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brohan, Ethelie Madeleine French stage actresses Actresses from Paris 1833 births 1900 deaths 19th-century French actresses Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française