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See also:AUGUSTINE SUSANNE See also:BROHAN (1807-1887) , See also:French actress, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 22nd of See also:January 1807 . She entered the See also:Conservatoire at the See also:age of eleven, and took the second See also:prize for See also:comedy in 18zo, and the first in 1821 . She served her See also:apprenticeship in the provinces, making her first Paris See also:appearance at the Odeon in 1832 as Dorine in Tartuffe . Her success there and elsewhere brought her a See also:summons to the Comedie Francaise, where she made her debut on the 15th of See also:February 1834, as Madelon in See also:Les Precieuses ridicules, and Suzanne in Le Mariage de See also:Figaro . She retired in 1842, and died on the 16th of See also:August 1887 . Her See also:elder daughter, See also:JOSEPHINE FELICITE See also:AUGUSTINE See also:BROHAN (1824-1893), was admitted to the Conservatoire when very See also:young, twice taking the second prize for comedy . The soubrette See also:part, entrusted for more than 15o years at the Com6die Francaise to a See also:succession of artists of the first See also:rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mdlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on the 19th of May 1841, as Dorine in Tertuffe, and Lise in Rivaux d'eux-memes . She was immediately admitted pensionnaire, and at the end of eighteen months unanimously elected societaire . She soon became a See also:great favourite, not only in the plays of See also:Moliere and de See also:Regnard, but also in those of See also:Marivaux . On her retirement from the See also:stage in 1866, she made an unhappy See also:marriage with Edmond See also:David de Gheest (d . 1885), secretary to the Belgian See also:legation in Paris . |
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