Béatrice Dussan, called Béatrix Dussane, (9 March 1888 - 3 March 1969) was a French stage actress. Admitted at 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 ...

in 1903, she became the 363th sociétaire in 1922. A street in the

15th arrondissement of Paris 15 (fifteen) is the natural number following 14 and preceding 16. Mathematics 15 is: * A composite number, and the sixth semiprime; its proper divisors being , and . * A deficient number, a smooth number, a lucky number, a pernicious nu ...

is named after her.

Biography

''Née'' Dussan, she added an "e" to her last name to mimic the great actress of the time Rejane (pseudonym of Gabrielle Réju). A first prize of classic comedy crowned her efforts 22 July 1903. She was immediately engaged as a boarder by

Jules Claretie Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius" (e.g. Jules César, the French name for Julius Caesar). It is the given name of: People with the name *Jules Aarons (1921–2008), American space physicist and photographer *Jules Abadie (1876–195 ...

, the then director of the Comédie-Française. On 23 September, she made her debut in ''

The Imaginary Invalid ''The Imaginary Invalid'', ''The Hypochondriac'', or ''The Would-Be Invalid'' ( French title ''Le Malade imaginaire'', ) is a three- act ''comédie-ballet'' by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes (H.495, H. ...

'' (role of Toinette). Named an associate in 1922, she sat on the board from 1935 to 1942. A teacher at the Conservatoire d'Art dramatique de Paris,

Sophie Desmarets Sophie Desmarets (1922–2012) was a French film actress.Davis p.145 Selected filmography * ''Battement de coeur'' (1940) - (uncredited) * ''Premier rendez-vous'' (1941) - Henriette Lefranc * ''L'homme qui joue avec le feu'' (1942) - Gabrielle * ...

, Robert Hirsch,

Michel Bouquet Michel Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for '' Toto the Hero'' in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars fo ...

Maria Casarès Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

Serge Reggiani Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-French actor and singer. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight. After studying acting at the Conservatoire des arts cinématog ...

Daniel Gélin Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French film and television actor. Early life Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin. When he was ten, ...

Gérard Oury Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. Life and career Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist of Russian-Jewish orig ...

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, Gilles Claude Thierrault and many others were her students. In the 1920s, she lectured, collaborated in different magazines (including '' La Revue française'', '' La Revue universelle'', ''Le Journal de la femme'', ''

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'', ''

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'', etc.) and published several books on theatre. From 1951, she had a column in ''

Le Mercure de France The was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was published f ...

''.Source : ''Plaisir de France'', janvier 1954 Towards the end of her career, she produced radio and television programs devoted to the history of theater: ''Au jour et aux lumières'', ''Des chandelles aux projecteurs'', ''Tréteaux, racontez moi'', etc. She was very a close friend of the poet

Tristan Derème Tristan Derème (February 13, 1889 – October 24, 1941), born Philippe Huc, was a French poet and writer. He had lived in Paris, but would often return to Oloron-Sainte-Marie, where his mother lived. There, he would recuperate through writing p ...

until his death in 1941. Dussane was married to Lucien Coulond, a playwright and journalist at ''

Gil Blas ''Gil Blas'' (french: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane ) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of G ...

'', ''

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'' and '' LeJournal''. She is buried at

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(95th division).

Theatre

Comédie-Française

* Admission at the

in 1903 * Sociétaire from 1922 to 1941 * 363th sociétaire * Honorary sociétaire in 1942 * 1903: ''

Les Précieuses ridicules ''Les Précieuses ridicules'' (, ''The Absurd Précieuses'' or ''The Affected Ladies'') is a one-act satire by Molière in prose. It takes aim at the ''précieuses'', the ultra-witty ladies who indulged in lively conversations, word games and, in ...

'' by

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world ...

as Toinette * 1905: ''

Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...

'' by

Jean Richepin Jean Richepin (; 4 February 1849 – 12 December 1926) was a French poet, novelist and dramatist. Biography Son of an army doctor, Jean Richepin was born 4 February 1849 at Médéa, French Algeria. At school and at the École Normale Supér ...

after

Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 Old Style and New Style dates, NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-emin ...

* 1906: ''La Courtisane'' by

André Arnyvelde André Arnyvelde (29 November 1881 – 2 February 1942) was a French journalist, dramatist and novelist. A Jew, he was imprisoned in the Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp, where he died in 1942. Works * ''La Courtisane'', dramatic comedy in ...

* 1906: ''Les Mouettes'' by Paul Adam * 1907: ''L'Étincelle'' by

Édouard Pailleron Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (7 September 183419 April 1899) was a French poet and dramatist best known for his play . Early life Édouard was born in Paris on 7 September 1834. From a Parisian cultured "bourgeoise" family (upper-middle class ...

* 1907: ''L'amour veille'' by

Robert de Flers Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.Pierre Barillet, ''Les Seigneurs du rire: Flers – Caillavet – ...

and

Gaston Arman de Caillavet Gaston Arman de Caillavet (13 March 1869 – 13 January 1915) was a French playwright. Early life Gaston Arman de Caillavet was born on 13 March 1869. He was the son of Albert Arman de Caillavet and Léontine Lippmann. His maternal grandfa ...

* 1908: ''Le Bon Roi Dagobert'' by

André Rivoire André Rivoire (5 May 1872 – 19 August 1930) was a French poet and playwright whose work was defined by the delicate precision of his observation. Life and work Rivoire was born in Vienne, Isère, in eastern France. He studied at the Lycée ...

* 1909: ''La Robe rouge'' by

Eugène Brieux Eugène Brieux (; 19 January 18586 December 1932), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents. Biography Works A one-act play, ''Bernard Palissy'', written in collaboration with M. Gaston Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he h ...

* 1912: ''Sapho'' by

Alphonse Daudet Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet. Early life Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ''bo ...

and

Adolphe Belot Louis Marc Adolphe Belot was a French playwright and novelist. He was born on 6 November 1829 in Pointe-à-Pitre, and died on 18 December 1890 in Paris. Biography Adolphe Belot was the son of an attorney employed by the Pointe-à-Pitre co ...

* 1912: ''

Poil de carotte ''Poil de carotte'' (En: ''Carrot Head'' or ''Carrot Top'') is a long short story or autobiographical novel by Jules Renard published in 1894 which recounts the childhood and the trials of a redheaded child. It is probably in this miserable child ...

'' by

Jules Renard Pierre-Jules Renard (; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works ''Poil de carotte'' (Carrot Top, 1894) and ''Les Histoires Naturelles'' (Nature Stories, 1896). Among ...

* 1914: ''Le Prince charmant'' by

Tristan Bernard Tristan Bernard (7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. Life He studied law, and after his military service, he started his career as the manager of an aluminium smelter. In the 1890s, ...

* 1920: ''

Romeo and Juliet ''Romeo and Juliet'' is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetim ...

'' by

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* 1921: '' The School for Husbands'' by

* 1921: ''La Coupe enchantée'' by

Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''Fables'', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Euro ...

and

Champmeslé Charles Chevillet, ''sieur de'' ''Champmeslé'', (20 October 1642 – 22 August 1701) was a 17th-century French actor and playwright (see Troupe of the Comédie-Française in 1680). Champmeslé made his theatre debut in 1665 in a troupe of t ...

* 1921: ''

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ''Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'' is a three-act ''comédie-ballet''—a ballet interrupted by spoken dialogue—by Molière, first presented on 6 October 1669 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors. ...

'' by

* 1922: '' La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas'' by

* 1922: ''

Vautrin Vautrin is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the ''La Comédie humaine'' series. His real name is Jacques Collin . He appears in the novels '' Le Père Goriot'' (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, a ...

'' by

Edmond Guiraud Edmond Guiraud (22 March 1879 – 18 April 1961) was a 20th-century Theatre of France, French playwright, librettist, and actor from the Cévennes region in southern France. Biographie Edmond Guiraud lived many years in Roquedur in the Gard dep ...

after

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 179 ...

* 1923: ''Jean de La Fontaine ou Le Distrait volontaire'' by Louis Geandreau and Léon Guillot de Saix * 1924: ''Je suis trop grand pour moi'' by

Jean Sarment Jean Sarment, real name Jean Bellemère, (13 January 1897 – 29 March 1976) was a French film and stage actor and a writer. He was nominated administrator of the Comédie-Française in July 1944 although he won't occupy the position. Selecte ...

* 1928: ''Le Quatrième'' by Martial Piéchaud * 1933: ''Monsieur Vernet'' by

, directed by

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* 1935: ''Madame Quinze'' by Jean Sarment, directed by the author * 1936: ''Le Voyage à Biarritz'' by Jean Sarment, directed by the author * 1937: ''

Business is business ''Business is business'' (french: :fr:Les affaires sont les affaires, Les affaires sont les affaires) is a French comedy in three acts, by the novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, performed in April 1903 on the stage of Comédie-Française, in ...

'' by

Octave Mirbeau Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the ...

, directed by

Fernand Ledoux Fernand Ledoux (born Jacques Joseph Félix Fernand Ledoux, 24 January 1897, Tirlemont – 21 September 1993, Villerville) was a French film and theatre actor of Belgian origin. He studied with Raphaël Duflos at the CNSAD, and began his ca ...

Hors Comédie-Française

* 1947 : ''

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'' by

, directed by

Jean Vilar Jean Vilar (25 March 1912– 28 May 1971) was a French actor and theatre director. Vilar trained under actor and theatre director Charles Dullin, then toured with an acting company throughout France. His directorial career began in 1943 in a sma ...

, 1st

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* 1947 : '' L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara'' by

Paul Claudel Paul Claudel (; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism. Early lif ...

, directed by

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, 1st festival d'Avignon * 1951 : '' Jedermann'' by

Hugo von Hofmannsthal Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. Early life Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class ...

, directed by

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, parvise of the Saint-Jean cathedral of Lyon

Cinema

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

: '' Le Franciscain de Bourges'' by

Claude Autant-Lara Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Biography Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill Sc ...

: The elegant lady

Bibliography

*''La Comédie-Française'', Paris, La Renaissance du livre, 1921 (rééd. Hachette, 1960) *''Le Comédien sans paradoxe'', Paris, Plon, 1933 *''Un comédien nommé Molière'', Paris, Plon, 1936 (rééd. Plon, 1956) *''Sophie Arnould, la plus spirituelle des bacchantes'', Paris, Albin Michel, 1938 *''Mes quatre Comédies-Françaises, de Claretie à Bourdet'', Paris, Le Divan, 1939 *''Du nouveau sur Racine'', Paris, Le Divan, 1941 *''Les Vers que je dis, pourquoi ne les diriez-vous pas ?'', Paris, Le Divan, 1943 *''Reines de théâtre (1633-1941)'', Lyon, H. Lardanchet, 1944 *''Notes de théâtre (1940-1950)'', Lyon, H. Lardanchet, 1951 *''Maria Casarès'', Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1953 *''Au jour et aux lumières. 1 - Premiers pas dans le temple'', Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1955 *''Au jour et aux lumières. 2 - Par les fenêtres'', Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1958 *''Le Théâtre'', Paris, Hachette, 1958 *''Cas de conscience du comédien'', Paris, Fleurus, 1960 *''J'étais dans la salle'', Paris, Mercure de France, 1963 - Recueil de chroniques publiées entre 1951 et 1962 *''Dieux des planches'', Paris, Flammarion, 1964

References

External links

Fonds Béatrix Dussane
dans le ''Répertoire des arts du spectacle'' ( BNF)
Interview de Beatrix Dussane (08/01/1961)
sur le site de l' INA
DUSSANE Béatrix (1888-1969)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dussane, Beatrix 20th-century French actresses Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française Actresses from Paris 1888 births 1969 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

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