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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 499 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:BAPTISTE PROSPER See also:BRESSANT (1815-1886)  , See also:French actor, was See also:born at Chalon-sur-See also:Saone on the 23rd of See also:October 1815, and began his See also:stage career at the Varietes in See also:Paris in 1833 . In 1838 he went to the French See also:theatre at St See also:Petersburg, where for eight years he played important parts with ever-increasing reputation . His success was confirmed at the Gymnase when he returned to Paris in 1846, and he made his debut at the Comedie Frangaise as a full-fledged societaire in 1854 . From playing the ardent See also:young See also:lover, he turned to leading roles both in See also:modern plays and in the classical repertoire . His See also:Richelieu in Mlle de Belle-Isle, his See also:Octave in See also:Alfred de See also:Musset's See also:Les Caprices de Marianne, and his See also:appearance in de Musset's Il faut qu'une See also:Porte soit ouverte ou fermee and Un caprice were followed by TartuJe, Le Misanthrope and See also:Don Juan . See also:Bressant retired in 1875, and died on the 23rd of See also:January 1886 . During his professorship at the See also:Conservatoire, Mounet-See also:Sully was one of his pupils .

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