Émilienne d'Alençon

Émilienne d'Alençon , née Émilienne André (born July 18, 1869 in Paris , France , † 1946 in Nice , France) was a French dancer and actress .

Émilienne d'Alençon

biography

At the age of 15 she was hired by Abel Tarride for a tour of France as soubrette and embodied flirtatious women in her role . In 1898 she appeared in Paris in the Cirque d'Été in a number with trained rabbits . A short time later she became the mistress of Duke Jacques d'Uzès , and later that of his son. She made her debut in Paris in the plays Paris Boulevards and Vénus d'Arles . In 1891 she appeared in the revue Que d'eau Que d'eau and in 1892 she appeared as a snake dancer.

In the Folies Bergère she was seen in the play La Belle et la Bête . A poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec shows them at the dress rehearsals for the play. In London she was seen in the ballet piece The Red Slippers in 1901 and played with the actress Julie Seale in Paris, in the Olympic Theater, great success. Émilienne d'Alençon danced a. a. also in the play Faust and Grand Ballet Féerie .

She had a love affair with the courtesan Valtesse de la Bigne . In 1906 she left the stage and invested in horse racing. She bought a racing stable and is said to have married the jockey Percy Woodland . Her poetry collection Sous la masque was published in 1918 . Her passion for gambling ruined her financial position and moved to Nice , where she died at the age of 77. Émilienne d'Alençon was buried in Paris.

Filmography

• 1918: Sous la masque

literature

• Brygida M. Ochaim, Claudia Balk: Variety dancers around 1900. From sensual intoxication to modern dance, exhibition of the Deutsches Theatermuseum Munich October 23, 1998 - January 17, 1999. , Stroemfeld, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-87877-745-0

Web links

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