Félicia Mallet

	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 films s ... [...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 Théâtre de l'Eldorado, Eldorado, the Olympia (Paris), Olympia, the Folies Bergère, Palais Garnier, Th� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Jean-Gaspard Deburau Jean-Gaspard Deburau (; born Jan Kašpar Dvořák; 31 July 1796 – 17 June 1846), sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a Czech-French mime. He performed from 1816 to the year of his death at the Théâtre des Funambules, which was immortalized in Marcel Carné's 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 Romantic, Decadent, Symbolist, and early Modernist theater and art. Life and career Born in Kolín, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), Deburau was the son of a Czech servant, Kateřina Králová (or Catherine Graff), and a former French soldier, Philippe-Germain Deburau, a native of Amiens. Jean-Gaspard became an actor and performed at the head of a nomadic troupe. In 1814 he took the company to Paris and they were hired in 1816 by the manager of the Théâtre des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1928 Deaths Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union. * January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family. * January 26 – The volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears. February * February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory. * February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York. * February 11 – February 19, 19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1863 Births Events January * 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 of America an official war goal. The signing proclaimed 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 the Union Army advances. This event marks the start of America's Reconstruction era, Reconstruction Era. * January 2 – Master Lucius Tar Paint Company (''Teerfarbenfabrik Meister Lucius''), predecessor of Hoechst AG, Hoechst, as a worldwide Chemical, chemical manufacturing brand, founded in a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. * January 4 – Founding date of the New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, in a schism with the Catholic Apostolic Church in Hamburg, Germany. * January 7 – In the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Ticino, the village of Bedretto is ... [...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 François-Frédéric-Raoul Toché (7 October 1850 – 18 January 1895) was a French playwright and journalist. Life and career Toché was born on 7 October 1850 in Rueil, now known as Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris. As a playwright he is known for hi ..., Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois 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'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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. Rimb ... [...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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Emma Liébel Emma Liébel (born Aimée Medebielle; 13 September 1873 – January 1928) was a French ''chanteuse''. She was one of the pioneers of the ''chanson réaliste'' style. Early years Aimée Medebielle was born in Pau, Pyrénées-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 ''Nouveautés'' 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 "Liébel" rather than "Liebel". Chanteuse Emma Liébel moved to Paris, and appeared at '' Bobino'' before 1909. She was one of the pioneers of the ''chanson réaliste'' style in her popular shows, along with Félicia Mallet, Yvette Guilbert and Eugénie Buffet. Other venues where she sang included ''L'Artistic'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Café Concert A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café (), is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino, among other hot beverages. Many coffeehouses in West Asia offer ''shisha'' (actually called ''nargile'' in Levantine Arabic, Greek, and Turkish), flavored tobacco smoked through a hookah. An espresso bar is a type of coffeehouse that specializes in serving espresso and espresso-based drinks. Some coffeehouses may serve iced coffee among other cold beverages, such as iced tea, as well as other non-caffeinated beverages. A coffeehouse may also serve food, such as light snacks, sandwiches, muffins, cakes, breads, pastries or donuts. Many doughnut shops in Canada and the U.S. serve coffee as an accompaniment to doughnuts, so these can be also classified as coffee shops, although doughnut shop tends to be more casual and serve lower-end fare which also facilitates take-out and drive-through which is popular in those countries, compared to a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]