La Thorillière (actor, 1697)
Anne Maurice Le Noir (* 1697 - 23 October 1759 in Paris ), known as La Thorillière , was a French actor.
biography
Anne Maurice Le Noir was born as the son and grandson of the actors Pierre Le Noir and François Le Noir , who also carried the stage name La Thorillière.
He made his first appearances in the Comédie-Française in 1722. Despite a speech error, he played in both tragedies and comedies, but was unsuccessful, was even booed and at first could only hold on thanks to his father. He was only able to convince in a piece of coat and sword from Duchemin . In the course of time he was able to develop a certain reputation and his critics fell silent. Even so, Volaire wrote in a letter to a friend in 1758 that La Thorillière was the opposite of comical. He often played the same roles as his father, but ridiculed, creating bizarre characters.
Le Noir has been married twice. After the death of his first wife Elisabeth Vauvel, he married Marie-Marguerite Langlois, a maid of the Blainville family , in 1756 .
In the year of his death, 1759, he retired from the stage and received a pension of 1,500 livre .
literature
- Henry Lyonnet : Dictionnaire des comédiens français , Paris ,. Volume, p. 302, digitized
Web links
- Anne Maurice La La Thorillière on the Comédie-Française homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Voltaire: Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire , p. 744, Paris: Garnier frères, 1885, digitized , accessed on September 3, 2018
- ↑ Auguste Jal : Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire , p. 464, Paris: Plon, 1885, digitized , accessed on September 3, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thorillière, La |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Le Noir, Anne Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1697 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1759 |
| Place of death | Paris |