Amélie Diéterle (20 February 1871 – 20 January 1941) was a French actress and opera singer. She was one of the popular actresses of the

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until the beginning of the

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. Amélie Diéterle inspired the poets

Léon Dierx Léon Dierx (; March 31, 1838 – June 11, 1912) was a French poet born in Saint-Denis in 1838. He came to Paris to study at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures and subsequently settled there, taking up a post in the education office. He ...

and

Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools o ...

and the painters

Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Count, ''Comte'' Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colour ...

, and

Alfred Philippe Roll Alfred Philippe Roll (1 March 1846 – 27 October 1919) was a French painter. Career Roll studied at École des Beaux-Arts, where he was taught by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, Charles-François Daubigny and Léon Bonnat. He ...

Biography

Amélie Diéterle was born in

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on 20 February 1871. She was the daughter of a maidservant from

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and a young French officer, Captain Louis Laurent who was garrisoned nearby in 1870. Having won first prize of song and solfège at the Conservatory of Dijon, she went to Paris in 1889 where she was chosen from 40 competitors to enter the

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. She was a pupil of

Alice Ducasse Anne-Elisa Alice Ducasse, was born in Valparaíso, Chile, on May 20, 1841, and died December 4, 1923, in Paris in the 9th arrondissement. She was an opera singer and teacher active in Paris.Walsh TJ. ''Second Empire Opera – The Théâtre-Lyri ...

who had been a singer of the

Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique () is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular Théâtre de la foire, theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief riva ...

. She was spotted in 1891 by the conductor of the Théâtre des Variétés and presented to the director Eugène Bertrand who hired her. This began a career of nearly 35 years in the troupe of the Variety Theatre. She became a permanent actress who had her own rooms and reserved box. Her little voice ''flutée'' and her nose " trumpet " make her very popular and very appreciated. She became the protégé of art collector

Paul Gallimard Paul Sébastien Gallimard (; 20 July 1850 – 9 March 1929) was a French art collector, bibliophile and theatre owner. He was the father of publisher Gaston Gallimard. Life and work Paul Gallimard was born in 1850 to businessman Gustave Gallima ...

, who was also the owner of the Variety Theater. She also inspired poets Léon Dierx and Stéphane Mallarmé.

made three portraits of her, a

lithograph Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the miscibility, immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by ...

in gray on

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in 1899, exhibited at the

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Museum and a pastel in 1903, exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston. The two paintings depict Amélie Diéterle wearing a white hat. The third portrait, made around 1910, is a pastel, currently at the in Saint-Quentin. One of the three works was loaned in 1922 by Gaston Bernheim (1870–1953) to the exhibition ''A Hundred Years of French Painting (1821–1921) from Ingres to Cubism'', organized for the benefit of the Strasbourg Museum (hometown of the actress) at the Parisian headquarters of the ''Antiquarian Room'' (reproduced in the article by Léandre Vaillat in ''L'Illustration'' n° 4136 of 1er April 1922).

makes it appear in one of his most famous paintings dated 1896: ''

Marcelle Lender Marcelle Lender (1862 – 27 September 1926) was a French singer, dancer and entertainer made famous in paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.Brocklehurst, Hannah & Foule, Frances (2018), ''Toulouse-Lautrec & the Art of Celebrity'', Na ...

dancing bolero in Chilperic''.

made a painting of her in June 1913, showing her half-naked sitting in a garden chair with . This painting is donated by Mrs. Henriette Roll at the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, at the

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. It has achieved great notoriety as is still reflected today the many postcards of the 1900s that represent it. She lived for a long time in the city of Croissy-sur-Seine. Compromise in spite of herself in the affair of the traffic of the fake

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statues in 1919 and tired by thirty years in the spotlight, she withdraws progressively from the scene between 1920 and 1923. On 16 June 1930, she married a friend of the family, André Louis Simon (1877–1965), in

Vallauris Vallauris (; ; Niçard subdialect: ''Valàuri'') is a seaside commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It is located in the metropolitan area (and is today effectively an ext ...

. Amélie Diéterle took refuge in Vallauris after June 1940 and died in

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after a long illness on 20 January 1941, at the age of 69 years.

Distinctions

Amélie Diéterle Appointed Officer of public instruction

Gallery

File: Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (F).jpg, Amélie Diéterle by Nadar, around 1895. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (Q).jpg, Amélie Diéterle by Nadar. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (J).jpg, Photograph of Amélie Diéterle, circa 1900 by Henri Manuel. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (G).jpg, Amélie Diéterle by photographer

Léopold-Émile Reutlinger Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (17 March 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a Peruvian-born French photographer. He came from a successful German-Jewish family of photographers. His uncle, Charles Reutlinger, founded the family's photography business, a ...

. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (A).jpg, Amélie Diéterle by Nadar in 1895 in the operetta: Le carnet du diable. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (B).jpg, Amélie Diéterle by Nadar in 1901 in the opera bouffe : ''The Labors of Hercules''. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (S).jpg, The character of Queen Omphale by Nadar, in colorized version. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (C25).jpg, Amélie Diéterle by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, in 1909. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (B15).jpg, Amélie Diéterle by

Nadar Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar () or Félix Nadar'','' was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloon (aircraft), balloonist, and proponent of History of avi ...

, in 1901. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (C10).jpg, Amélie Diéterle at the Theater of the Bouffes-Parisiens. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (Y).jpg, Amélie Diéterle, the charm of French theater. File:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) (A65).jpg, Amélie Diéterle by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, around 1895.

Theater

* 1892: '' La Vie parisienne'', opera in four acts by

Henri Meilhac Henri Meilhac (; 23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a prolific French playwright and opera librettist, known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on comic operas with music by Jacques Offenbach. He also wrote occasionally for serious w ...

and

Ludovic Halévy Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 May 1908) was a French people, French author and playwright, known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on the libretto, libretti for Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and comic operas by Jacques Offenbach, inc ...

, music by

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...

Théâtre des Variétés The Théâtre des Variétés () is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History The theatre owed its creation to Mademoiselle Montans ...

. Role : Louise * 1892: ''Two against one'', comedy in one act, by Debelly,

* 1892: ''Remorse of Gideon'', comedy in one act, by Marc Sonal and Victor Gréhon, Theater of Variety. Role : Hermance * 1892: ''La Souricière'', comedy in three acts, by

Alexandre Bisson Alexandre Bisson (9 April 1848 – 27 January 1912) was a French playwright, vaudeville creator, and novelist. Born in Briouze, Orne in Lower Normandy, he was successful in his native France as well as in the United States. Remembered as a sig ...

and

Albert Carré Albert Carré (; born Strasbourg 22 June 1852, died Paris 12 December 1938) was a French theatre director, opera director, actor and librettist. He was the nephew of librettist Michel Carré (1821–1872) and cousin of cinema director Michel Ca ...

, Théâtre des Variétés. Role : Charlotte * 1893: '' Les brigands'', opera in three acts, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés . Role : Zerlina * 1893: ''Modes à latresol'', vaudeville by Marc Sonal and Victor Gréhon, Théâtre des Variétés. Role : Virginia * 1894: ''The Heroic The Cardunois'', play in three acts, of

, theater of the Varieties. Role : Rosalie * 1894: ''Gentil Bernard or the Art of Love'', a five-act comedy mixed with verses, by Philippe Dumanoir (Philippe-François Pinel, says) and Clairville (Louis-François-Marie Nicolai, says), Variety Theater. Role : Manon * 1894: ''Madame la Commissaire'', vaudeville in three acts, from Henri Chivot and

Henry Bocage Henry Bocage (1835 – 14 October 1917) was a French playwright of the second half of the 19th century. A nephew of the actor Bocage (actor), Bocage and younger brother of Paul Bocage, Hanry Bocage wrote comedies as well as novels. An engineer by ...

(Henry Tousez, says), Théâtre des Variétés. Role : Louisette * 1894: ''The First husband of France'', vaudeville in three acts, of Albin Valabrègue, theater of Variety. Role : Clara * 1894: ''La Glissade'', comedy in three acts, by Max Maurey (Marx Rapoport, says) and Augustin Thierry (son of Gilbert Augustin-Thierry), Comédie-Parisienne Theater. Role : Julie * 1894: ''Mam'zelle Nitouche'', play in four acts, by Henri Meilhac and Albert Millaud, music by

Hervé Hervé is a French language, French masculine given name of Breton language, Breton origin, from the name of the 6th-century Breton Saint Hervé. The common latinization of the name is Herveus (also ''Haerveus''), an early (8th-century) latinizat ...

(Louis -Auguste-Florimond Ronger, says), Variety Theater. Role : Lydie * 1894: ''La Rieuse'', a three-act play by

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'', '' L ...

and Raoul Toché, music by Hervé (Louis-Auguste-Florimond Ronger, said), Variety Theater. Role : Lise * 1895: ''The Diary of the Devil'', a fantastic piece in five acts and eight tableaux by Ernest Blum and

Paul Ferrier Paul Ferrier (29 March 1843 - September 1920) was a French dramatist, who also provided libretti for several composers, especially Varney and Serpette. Ferrier was born in Montpellier. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he ...

, music by Gaston Serpette, theater varieties. Role : Hyacinth * 1895: ''Chilperic'', opera eaten in three acts and four tableaux, by Hervé (Louis-Auguste-Florimond Ronger, says) and

, music by Hervé, Variety Theater. Role : Hennengarde * 1896: ''The Punctured Eye'', opera in three acts, by

(Louis-Auguste-Florimond Ronger, says), theater of varieties. Role : Éclosine * 1897: ''Paris qui marche'', revue in 3 acts, 10 paintings, by Hector Monréal and Henri Blondeau, music of Henri Chatau (which composes especially for this review, the famous song, ''Frou-frou''), theater of the Varieties. Roles : Raphaëlle, A little lady, A lady of the Restoration, Bengaline. * 1898: ''Le Nouveau Jeu'', a comedy in five acts and seven tableaux by Henri Lavedan, Théâtre des Variétés. Role : Riquiqui * 1899: ''Forward: Smart!'', Fantasy (revue) by Jules Oudot and

Henry de Gorsse Auguste Joseph Henry de Gorsse (19 March 1868 – 7 March 1936) was a French writer, playwright, screenwriter and lyricist. A prolific writer, Henry de Gorsse has authored many plays, comedy, comedies, operettas and vaudevilles, often in collabo ...

, cabaret of songwriters: ''Tréteau de Tabarin'' at 58 rue Pigalle. Role : the Divette * 1900: ''Between court and garden'', fantasy-revue in one act of Émile Duranthon and Paul Delay,

théâtre des Mathurins The théâtre des Mathurins (), also called Les Mathurins, is a Parisian theatre located at 36, rue des Mathurins, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was established in 1897. Directions * 1898–1901: Marguerite Deval * 1901–1908: Ju ...

. Role : The Commere * 1900: ''Mignardise'', fantasy in one act, by Michel Carré son and

Frédéric Febvre Alexandre Frédéric Febvre (183514 December 1916) was a French actor. Biography He was born in Paris, and after the usual apprenticeship in the provinces and in several Parisian theatres in small parts, was called to the Comédie-Française in 1 ...

, music by Francis Thomé, Capucine Theater. Role : Mignardise * 1900: ''Prince's Education'', a four-act play by

Maurice Donnay Charles Maurice Donnay (12 October 1859 – 31 March 1945) was a French people, French dramatist. Biography Donnay was born of middle-class parents in Paris in 1859. His father was a railway engineer and initially Donnay followed a similar ...

, at the Théâtre des Variétés. Role : Mariette Spring * 1900: '' Les brigands'' (reprise), opéra in three acts, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, music of Jacques Offenbach, Variety Theater. Role : Duke of Mantua * 1900: ''

La belle Hélène ''La belle Hélène'' (, ''The Beautiful Helen'') is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The piece parodies the story of Helen of Troy's elopement with Paris (mythology ...

'' (reprise), opera in three acts by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés. Role : Oreste * 1900: ''Le carnet du Diable'' (reprise), faerie-operetta in three acts and ten tableaux by Ernest Blum and Paul Ferrier, music of Gaston Serpette, Variety Theater. Role : Sataniella * 1901: ''Napoli'', four-act ballet in

Paul Milliet Paul Milliet (14 February 1848 – 21 November 1924) was a French playwright and librettist of the Parisian Belle Époque. His opera librettos include Jules Massenet's ''Hérodiade'' (1881) and ''Werther'' (1892), Alfred Bruneau's ''Kérim'' ( ...

, music by

Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' (1936) and '' Risurrezione'' (1904), and for having completed Puccini's opera ''Turandot'' in 1926. He ha ...

, staging and choreography by Mrs Mariquita (Marie-Thérèse Gamalery, so-called), under the direction of

Édouard Marchand Jules Édouard Marchand (20 October 1859 – 8 February 1905Folies Bergère 150px, Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg">Walery, 1927 The Folies Bergère () is a cabaret music hall in Paris, France. Located at 32 Rue Richer in the 9th Arrondissement, the Folies Bergère was built as an opera house by the arc ...

. Role : La Parisienne * 1901: ''The Works of Hercules'', Opera in 3 acts of

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 grandfath ...

and

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 � ...

, music of

Claude Terrasse Claude Terrasse (27 January 1867 – 30 June 1923) was a French composer of operettas. Terrasse was born in L'Arbresle, Rhône. He became known by writing the music for the play ''Ubu Roi'' by Alfred Jarry in 1896. In Paris, his brother-in-law, t ...

, Bouffes-Parisiens theater. Role : the queen ''Omphale'' * 1901: ''Lili and Tonton'', a play by Léon Jancey at the Mathurins Theater. Role : Julie de Vimeuse * 1902: ''Madame la Présidente'', operetta in 3 acts, by Paul Ferrier and Auguste Germain, music by Edmond Diet, bouffes-Parisians. Role : Reseda. * 1903: ''La Revue à poivre'', reviewed in eight tableaux by E.P. Lafargue at La Scala. Role : Beguinette * 1904: ''Mam'zelle 5 Louis'' or ''Mam'zelle Five Louis'', fantasy-operetta in three acts and five tableaux by Armand Tillet says Claude Roland and Hippolyte Gaetan Chapoton said Serge Basset, music of Louis Bernard-Saraz said Ludovic Ratz, Café-concert Parisiana. Role : Mam'zelle Five Louis * 1905: ''La Petite Milliardaire'' by Henri Dumay * 1905: ''Heart of Sparrow'', of Louis Artus, Theater of the Athenee * 1906: ''Le Paradis de Mahomet'', an operetta in three acts and four tableaux by Henri Blondeau, music by

Robert Planquette Jean Robert Planquette (; 31 July 1848 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of songs and operettas. Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, especially ''Les cloches de Corneville'' (1878), the length o ...

, Variety Theater. Role : Fathmé * 1906: ''La Ponette'' by Louis Artus * 1907: ''The Coup de Jarnac'' by

and Maurice de Marsan * 1907: ''Des Lys here and there, delight'', revue in one act by Jean Meudrot and Paul Bail, Théâtre de la Comédie-Royale. Roles : Fleur de Lys and the Ecaillère and an imitation of ''Jacasse'' * 1907: ''Love in the bank'', comedy in three acts of Louis Artus, theater of the Varieties. Role : Caroline * 1908: ''The King'', comedy in four acts by Robert de Flers, Gaston Arman de Caillavet and

Emmanuel Arène Emmanuel Arène (1 January 1856 – 14 August 1908) was a French journalist, playwright and republican politician who was deputy for Corsica for many years and senator of Corsica in his last years. He was involved in scandals over maritime mail co ...

, theater varieties. Role : Suzette Bourdier * 1909: ''Crainquebille'', a play in three tableaux by

Anatole France (; born ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.Théâtre du Châtelet The Théâtre du Châtelet () is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. One of two theatres (the other being the Théâtre de la Ville) built on the site of a ''châtelet'', a ...

. Role: a worker * 1909: 24 October, 530e and last performance of the comedy, ''The King'', at the Théâtre des Variétés. * 1909: ''Le Circuit'', a three-act play by

Georges Feydeau Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in a ...

and Francis de Croisset, Théâtre des Variétés. Role : Gabrielle * 1910: ''At the time of the crusades'', operetta by Franc-Nohain and

, Palais de la Bourse, as part of the Feast of the Exchange Agent Company. Role : The chatelaine * 1910: ''Our Women'', vaudeville in three acts by Pierre Filhol,

Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques The Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques () was a theatre in Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries. Opened first in 1832 in the site of the old Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple, under Frédérick Lemaître it became a noted ...

. Role: Chichette * 1911: '' La Vie parisienne'' (reprise), opera in four acts by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, music by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre des Variétés. Role : Swedish Baroness * 1911: ''Les Midinettes'', by Louis Artus * 1912: ''Happiness at the hand'' by Paul Gavault * 1917: ''Béguinette'', Variety Theater * 1918: ''La Dame de Monte-Carlo'' by Georges Léglise and Edmond Pingrin, music by Germaine Raynal and Hubert Mouton, Théâtre des Variétés * 1919: ''I want to have a Child'',

Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique The (, literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet. It was rebuilt in 1770 and 1786, but in 1827 was destroyed by fire. A ...

* 1921: ''The King'', by Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Robert de Flers and Emmanuel Arène, Variety Theater. Role : Youyou * 1922: ''La Belle Angevine'' by

and André Rivoire, Théâtre des Variétés.

Filmography

* 1909: ''Femme de chambre improvisée'', by Georges Monca * 1909: ''Jim Blackwood jockey'', by Georges Monca * 1909: ''The two burglars'', by Georges Monca * 1909: ''The maker of Cremona'', by

Albert Capellani Albert Capellani (23 August 1874 – 26 September 1931) was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent film, silent era. He directed films between 1905 and 1922. One of his brothers was the actor-sculptor Paul Capellani, and anoth ...

* 1909: ''The universal legatee'', by

André Calmettes André Calmettes (1861–1942) was a French actor and film director. Biography After being a theatre actor for twenty years, he joined the society ', founded in 1908 by the novelist and editor, at the urging of the Sociétaires of the Comédie- ...

* 1910: ''Mimi Pinson'' (or ''Miss Pinson''), by Georges Monca. Role : ''Mimi Pinson'' * 1910: ''The Christmas of the Painter'', by Georges Monca * 1910: ''The cicada and the ant'' by Georges Monca * 1910: ''The cat metamorphosed into a woman'', by

Michel Carré Michel Carré (; 20 October 1821, Besançon – 27 June 1872, Argenteuil) was a prolific French librettist. He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse and plays before turning to writing li ...

. Role: ''Kato'' * 1911: ''The living dead'' by

* 1911: ''The rival duped'', by

. Role: ''The bride'' * 1911: ''Rigadin burglar'', by Georges Monca * 1911: ''Boubouroche'', by Georges Monca * 1911: ''Rigadin and the recalcitrant tenant'', by Georges Monca * 1911: ''The Nose of Rigadin'', by Georges Monca * 1911: ''The Disadvantages of Rigadin'', by Georges Monca * 1912: '' Rigadin explorer'', by Georges Monca * 1912: ''Rigadin and the aunt to the inheritance'', by Georges Monca. Role : ''The aunt'' * 1912: ''The household of Rigadin'', by Georges Monca * 1912: ''Rigadin and the recalcitrant divorcee'', by Georges Monca * 1912: ''The three sultanas'', by Adrien Caillard. Role : ''Roxelane'' * 1912: ''Rigadin between two flames'', by Georges Monca * 1912: ''Rigadin in the Balkans'', by Georges Monca * 1913: ''The vengeful fire'', by Georges Monca. Role : ''Countess of Grandchamp''

Bibliography

* * * * * * * * * * Commentary of the authors: « In this book of "Loves of Don Juan", we appealed for the photographic illustration, to Mrs Lise Fleuron, exquisite and charming artist of which all Paris at the moment, and at Miss Diéterle, whose stique and talent are applauded each evening at the Variety Theater. Both of them wanted to embody the two main characters of the novel: the first for '' Dona Elvire '', the second for ''Dona Anna'' ».

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