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Jean-Baptiste Fauchard (19 March 1737, Paris
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– 24 May 1816, Paris), stage name Grandmesnil or Grand-Ménil), was a French actor and playwright.
Life
At first a lawyer in theparliament of Paris
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, then a counsellor in the Admiralty, he spoke out against the Parlement Maupeou and left France in 1771. Taking refuge in Brussels
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, he gave himself over the theatrical interests he had always had and appeared in several servant roles. Returning to France some years later, he acted in Marseille
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and then in Bordeaux
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, where he played financiers and "rôles à manteau".
On 31 August 1790, he made his début at the Comédie-Française (becoming a societaire of it in 1792), from which he retired on 21 March 1811. Grandmesnil was noted as one of the best interpreters of 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 ...
and particularly excelled in the rôles of Arnolphe and Harpagon. The distinction of his manners and the constant regularity of his lifestyle were highly valued and in 1796 he was summoned to the Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France
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on its formation, in the Literature and Fine Arts classe.
Works
Grandmesnil wrote two plays, although they may have never been performed in his lifetime. * ''Le Savetier joyeux'' (1759) * ''Tant pis pour elles, tant pis pour eux et tant mieux pour eux, tant mieux pour elles, ou le Voyage impromptu'' (1760)Sources
*Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''.
Biography
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, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 923
External links
His works and productions of them
on th
CÉSAR
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See also
* Troupe of the Comédie-Française in 1790 {{DEFAULTSORT:Grandmesnil (Actor) 1737 births 1816 deaths French male stage actors 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française Male actors from Paris