François Jules Edmond Got (1 October 1822, in Lignerolles,

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) was a French stage

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, comedian, and

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. Edmond Got entered the

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in 1841, winning the second prize for comedy that year and the first in 1842. After a year of military service he made his debut at the Comédie Française on 17 July 1844, as Alexis in ''Les Héritiers'' and Mascarelles in ''Les Précieuses ridicules''. He was immediately admitted ''pensionnaire'', and became ''sociétaire'' in 1850. By special permission of the emperor in 1866 he played at the Odéon in Emile Augier's ''Contagion''. His golden jubilee at the Théâtre Français was celebrated in 1894, and he made his final appearance the year after. Got was a fine representative of the grand style of French acting, and was much admired in England as well as in Paris. He wrote two librettos for operas by Edmond Membrée (1820-1892), ''François Villon'' (1857) and ''L'Esclave'' (1874). In 1881, he was decorated with the cross of the

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''Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events'', D. Appleton and company, 1902
''Got, Edmond'', p. 491 1822 births 1901 deaths French male stage actors French opera librettists Recipients of the Legion of Honour People from Orne Male actors from Normandy Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française 19th-century French male actors French male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French male writers {{France-stage-actor-stub