Eugénie Segond-Weber

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Eugénie Segond-Weber, photo of Napoleon Sarony
Eugénie Segond-Weber, photo by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger

Eugénie Segond-Weber (born February 6, 1867 in Paris , † June 14, 1945 ) was a French actress.

Life

Caroline-Eugénie Weber was born as the daughter of Charles Weber, who led a battalion during the commune and was secretary to Édouard Lockroy . Charles Weber died in 1871. Eugénie Weber attended the Conservatory from 1883 and had her first engagement at the Odeon in 1885. From June 1, 1887, she was a member of the Comédie-Française . She worked as an actress until 1944. She was the mother of the painter Pierre Segond-Weber (* 1886).

In 1891 Segond-Weber played in Jeanne d'Arc , in 1900 in Le Cid . Around 1903 she could be seen as Antigone and as Medea in the Comédie-Française.

Memorial plaque in the rue de la Roquette, where Segond-Weber grew up

Eugénie Segond-Weber's grave is in the Père Lachaise cemetery .

Portraits and aftermath

Eugénie Segond-Weber was the motif of various collective and advertising images. Well-known photographers such as Napoleon Sarony , Léopold-Émile Reutlinger and Nadar portrayed them; In 1904 Leonetto Cappiello published the work Les Contemporains Celèbres , a collection of caricatures in which “Mme. Segond-Weber ”a lithograph was dedicated. A rose is named after Segond-Weber.

literature

  • Fernand Fouquet, Le Rôle de Phèdre et Mme Segond-Weber , M. Maugeret, 1890
  • Liane Lehman, Madame Segond-Weber et la tragédie , Paris 1980

Web links

Commons : Caroline Eugénie Segond-Weber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Pierre Segond-Weber
  2. roles
  3. Antigone ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.photographersdirect.com
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  5. ↑ Breakdown of life
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  7. Cappiello
  8. Rose