Pierre-François Beauvallet (13 October 1801 – 21 December 1873) was a 19th-century French actor and

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Biography

Beauvallet first made his reputation as a

melodrama A melodrama is a Drama, dramatic work in which plot, typically sensationalized for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodrama is "an exaggerated version of drama". Melodramas typically concentrate on ...

actor, then became an ordinary

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of the

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; He tried with less success to be a playwright. His son was the writer and dramatist

Léon Beauvallet Léon Beauvallet, full name Pierre-Léon-Charles Beauvallet, (22 August 1828 – 22 March 1885) was a 19th-century French actor, playwright and novelist. Author of numerous plays, most of them written in collaboration, as well as feuilletons p ...

. He was a professor at the

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from 1839 to 1872.

Theatre

Career at the Comédie-Française

: Entrance in 1830 : Appointed 251st sociétaire in 1832 : Departure in 1861

Bibliography

Pierre Larousse Pierre Athanase Larousse (; 23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume . Early ...

, �
Léon Beauvallet
», ''Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle'', tome 2, Paris, 1867, , at Gallica

External links

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