AUGUSTINE SUSANNE

See also:

• BROHAN (1833-1900)
• AUGUSTINE SUSANNE BROHAN (1807-1887)

BROHAN (1807-1887)  , French actress, was born in Paris on the 22nd of January 1807 . She entered the Conservatoire at the age of eleven, and took the second prize for comedy in 18zo, and the first in 1821 . She served her apprenticeship in the provinces, making her first Paris appearance at the Odeon in 1832 as Dorine in Tartuffe . Her success there and elsewhere brought her a summons to the Comedie Francaise, where she made her debut on the 15th of February 1834, as Madelon in Les Precieuses ridicules, and Suzanne in Le Mariage de Figaro . She retired in 1842, and died on the 16th of August 1887 . Her elder daughter, JOSEPHINE FELICITE AUGUSTINE BROHAN (1824-1893), was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy . The soubrette part, entrusted for more than 15o years at the Com6die Francaise to a succession of artists of the first 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 great favourite, not only in the plays of Moliere and de Regnard, but also in those of Marivaux . On her retirement from the stage in 1866, she made an unhappy marriage with Edmond David de Gheest (d . 1885), secretary to the Belgian legation in Paris .