Frédérick Lemaître
Frédérick Lemaître (* 1800 in Le Havre , France , † January 26, 1876 in Paris ) was a French actor .
Life
Lemaître was trained at the Théâtre Doyen and was able to gain first stage experience there. His career then began with character roles at the boulevard theaters on Paris' Boulevard du Temple , the stronghold of popular theater life in Paris at the time (comparable to what would later become New York's Broadway ). The writer Victor Hugo held him in high regard and advocated his appearance in the Comédie-Française , which he was denied. So he remained a celebrated performer of melodrama instead of upscale tragedy .
Private
Lemaitre was married but separated from his wife in order to enter into a stable relationship with Atala Beauchêne . After Beauchêne caught him red-handed with another woman in 1840, she separated from him. Lemaître then fell in love with the much younger Clarisse Miroy , with whom he lived for 13 years. In Le Temps , two large articles were dedicated to them as Lemaîtres' great loves .
Posthumously
In the film Children of Olympus (1945) by Marcel Carné , Lemaître appears as the role, played by Pierre Brasseur .
Lemaître made it back to the theater in 1998 in a modern play by French author Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt entitled Frédérick or Boulevard des Crime .
Web links
- Literature by and about Frédérick Lemaître in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frédérick Lemaître . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 678.
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| SURNAME | Lemaître, Frédérick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Havre , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1876 |
| Place of death | Paris |