Atala Beauchêne

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Atala Beauchêne , civil Louise Beaudoin (born October 20, 1814 in Orléans , † March 29, 1894 in Villeurbanne ), was a French actress.

biography

Louise Beaudoin, daughter of the dealer Jacques Beaudoin and his wife Therérèse, made her debut at the age of 13 at the Vaudeville La petite somnambule , at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin . The following year she was hired as petite Atala at the Théâtre Comte . She received her first full roles in 1830 at the Comédie-Française , where she got roles appropriate to her age. There she made her debut in the tragedy Gustave-Adolphe by Lucien Arnault . In 1832 she left the Comédie-Française and accepted an engagement for several roles at the Théâtre du Vaudeville for a year . During this time she married the actor Meyronnet, about whom nothing else is known.

Her next professional station was the Salle Ventadour . 1836 she played the Théâtre des Variétés the Anna Damby in Alexandre Dumas' Kean ou Désordre et génie . There she met Frédérick Lemaître , with whom she entered into a liaison . His wife Sophie then made a scene for him and he separated from her.

Lemaître was able to persuade Beauchêne to go on tour and so both toured the province between 1836 and 1838, until Beauchêne then gave the queen in Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas at the Théâtre de la Renaissance . She had great success with her performance and she would shape the character through her acting for a long time. It is not known why she has appeared under her real name for several years since then. In 1840 Beauchêne separated from Lemaître because, as her mother said, he was violent.

In the following years she celebrated great success in various roles, for example in the Cirque Olympique . In 1847 she was still playing in the Théâtre Historique , but after Théophile Gautier's scathing criticism for her performance in Dumas' Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge , the roles in Paris were suddenly not offered. So she went to the Gillian Lynne Theater in London, where she had accepted an engagement.

From 1857 Beauchêne led an unsteady life, because she changed her engagements and places of work annually. But also played again in Paris, among others at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin. Their path led them from Évreux via Auxerre to La Rochelle . Then she took a job in Nevers to play in Valenciennes the following year . After several other stops, she finally landed in Marseille in 1883, where she ended her career. She then received a pension of 500 francs from the Société des Artistes.

She first settled in Lyon in 1885 and then moved to Villeurbanne in 1891 to live with her sister, where she died in 1894.

Roles (selection)

  • Comtesse Glaris in Reine, cardinal et page by Jacques-François Ancelot (1832)
  • Victorine in Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (1835)
  • Anna Damby in Kean ou Désordre et génie by Alexandre Dumas the Elder (1836)
  • The Queen in Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo (1838)
  • Jeanette in Deux jeunes Femmes by Amable de Saint-Hilaire (1840)
  • Joséphine in Le Prince Eugène et l´Impératrice Joséphine , by Ferdinand Laloue (1843)
  • Madame de Sauve in La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas the Elder (1847)

literature

  • Henry Lyonnet : Dictionnaire des comédiens français, ceux d'hier , 1912, p. 111, digitized
  • Louis Schneiter in Le Temps : Deux Amours de Frédérick Lemaître - I - Atala Beauchêne , edition of August 16, 1930, p. 3f. digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Société HAVRAISE d'études diverses: Recueil des publications de la Société d'études diverses HAVRAISE , 1968, p 26, digitized , accessed on 20 March 2019
  2. ↑ Le Rappel : Un livre de Victor-Hugo: "Choses Vues" , 1968, edition of October 19, 1899, p. 1, digitalized , accessed on March 20, 2019
  3. ↑ Le Radical : Premières Représentations , edition of December 30, 1888, p. 3, digitalized , accessed on March 20, 2019
  4. ^ Officiel-artiste : Association des artistes dramatiques , edition of June 26, 1884, p. 2, digitalized , accessed on March 21, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Beauchêne, Atala
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaudoin, Louise (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Orleans
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1894
Place of death Villeurbanne