Comedie Collection

Claretie / Sem / Celebrites
JULES CLARETIE French writer and Director of the Comedie Francaise Date: 1840 - 1913

Berthe Bovy
Mlle. Berthe Bovy on a bridge in Paris. This lady is a societaire of the Comedie Francaise, where her performances have gained her great renown

Cecile Sorel, French actress
Cecile Sorel (1873-1966) was a French comic actress, noted for her extravagant costumes, and here being feted as the best dressed woman in Europe. Date: circa 1910

Sarah Bernhardt as Phedre, by Racine, at the Comedie Francaise, Paris. Date: 1873

A portrait of Huguette Duflos (1920-24) of the Comedie Francaise Date: 1920-1924

A portrait of Jane Penouardt (1920-24) who appeared in Louis Verneuils Lison and Duvernois Nonnette at her own theatre - the Theatre Daunou Date: 1920-1924

New Paris dresses from the stage, 1925. Top left Mme Bretty taken in the foyer of the Comedie Francaise. Top right and right Mlle Chournoff one of the dancers in Nice

Racing at the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1862. Woman in violet crinoline dress and mantelet cape watching the horse racing in the park. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Woman outside the Theatre du Gymnase, Paris, 1827. Fashionable woman in large bonnet, lace collar and bib, puff-sleeve dress holding a shawl

Mlle Fanny Chalboz as La Bourguignonne in Cuisinieres
Mlle Fanny Chalboz as La Bourguignonne in the play Cuisinieres by Nicholas Brazier at the Theatre des Varietes, 1822. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malos Almanach des Spectacles par

Talma and Mlle. Mars in Ecole des Vieillards
Francois-Joseph Talma (Danville) and Mademoiselle Mars (Madame Danville) in Ecole des Vieillards by Casimir Delavigne at the Comedie Francais, 1823

French actor Pierre-Marie-Nicolas Michelot (1786-1856) as Mortimer in Marie Stuart by Friedrich von Schiller at the Comedie Francais, 1820

French actor Nicolas-Baptiste Anselme as Le
French actor Nicolas-Baptiste Anselme or Baptiste aine (1761-1835) as Le Capitaine in Les deux Freres at the Comedie Francais

French actress Mlle. Volnais as Eliska in
French actress Mlle. Volnais (Claudine Placide Croizet-Ferreire, 1786-1837) as Eliska in La Revanche by Jean-Francois Roger and Augustin Creuze de Lesser at the Comedie Francais

Wanda de Boncza, French actress, Comedie Francaise

Temporary Theatre - Neufchatel-en-Bray, France
A temporary Theatre erected (alongside other tents and sideshows) outside the Hotel de Ville (Town Hall) at Neufchatel-en-Bray - a commune situated in the Seine-Maritime department of the Normandy

Alexandre Dumas, Comedie Francaise
Committee Room, Comedie Francaise - Alexandre Dumas reading a play

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Moliere
LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME Louis Leloir (1860-1919) in the role of the Maitre de Philosophie (Master of Philosophy); Coquelin Cadet as Monsieur Jourdain; Jules Truffier as the Maitre de Danse

Zena Dare - English singer and actress
Miss Zena Dare (1887-1975) - English stage singer and actress, popular young actress at the time in Edwardian musical stage comedies. In the role of Princess Beauty

La Comedie and rue Juillet XXX, Bordeaux, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Balzac Photo
HONORE DE BALZAC French writer whose massive Comedie humaine is a monument of social fiction. Date: 1799 - 1850

Coquelin aine. Engraving. Colored
Coquelin aine (1841-1909). French actor. Engraving. Colored

Jules Claretie Photo
JULES CLARETIE French theatre director of the Comedie Francaise. Date: 1709 - 1786

Jean Mounet-Sully / 1892
JEAN MOUNET-SULLY French actor in the role of Oedipus Rex at the Comedie Francaise Date: 1892

Edwige Feuillere (1907 1998), (Edwige Cunati) French actress of stage and screen, leading member of the Comedie Francaise

Jean-Baptiste Moliere
JEAN-BAPTISTE MOLIERE French playwright and actor, in the role of Sganarelle, in his own play L Ecole des Maris (1661) (from a painting at the Comedie Francaise) Date: 1622 - 1673

Paris. Com餩e-Fran硩se (early 19th c). Etching
Paris. Com餩 e-Fran硩 se (early 19th c). Etching. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

Paris, France - General View from Rue de l Ancienne Comedie. Site of the Old Theatre-Guenegaud (1689-1770) in the rue des Fosses-Saint-Germain-des-Pres. Date: 1892

View of Bordeaux, location of French government, WW1
View of Bordeaux, where the French government relocated in the early days of the First World War. Seen here are the Place de la Comedie and Rue 30 Juillet. Date: 1914

Houssaye Photo
ARSENE ARMAND HOUSSAYE French administrator of the Comedie francaise, editor and museum reorganiser, photographed in 1861. Date: 1815-1896

Rachel, Actress
RACHEL (born Elisa Felix) Swiss-born actress, daughter of Jewish-Alsatian pedlars, the supreme classical actress of the French stage and star of the Comedie Francaise. Date: 1821 - 1858

Claretie Photo
JULES CLARETIE French writer and impresario, director of the Comedie Francaise. Photo 1885. Date: 1840 - 1913

Suzanne Reichenberg
SUZANNE REICHENBERG (sometimes Reichemberg) French actress with the Comedie Francaise. Date: 1853 - 1924

Parisian Lady in a Corset Skirt
The Underside of the Parisian A glamorous Parisienne wearing a fashionable corset-skirt Date: circa 1907

Le gala des marins de France... ?a Comedie Francaise Le gala des marins de France... ?�a Comedie Francaise
Le gala des marins de France... a la Comedie Francaise. A marine and a soldier standing on land with the sea in the background. Date 1916. Le gala des marins de France

French Theatre / Symandre
Symandre A character from La Comedie des Comediens by Gougenot. Date: 1633

French Theatre / Fierabras
Fierabras ( le capitaine ) A character from La Comedie de Proverbes by Adrien de Montluc. Date: early 17th century

Sophie Croizette / Gill
Sophie Croizette (1848-1901) Russian born French actress, member of the Comdie-Franaise and a friend of Sarah Bernhardt. She played in The Sphinx of Octave Feuillet

Arsne Houssaye / Gill
Arsne Houssaye (1815-1896) Journalist, art critic, dramatist novelist and director of the Comdie-Franaise (1849-1856)

Cecile Sorel / 1903
CECILE SOREL French actress of the Comedie-Francaise

Adrienne Lecouvreur / Oval
ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR talented actress of the Comedie Francaise, who died in mysterious circumstances, perhaps poisoned by a rival

Elephant / Cafe 1905
An elephant invades the Cafe de la Comedie at Perigueux, France

Theatre / Plays / Hugo
The first night of HERNANI at the Comedie Francaise - the romantic drama arouses opposition among supporters of conventional theatre

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