See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

ALBERT See also:

• CHARLES ALBERT FECHTER (1824–1879)

FECHTER (1824–1879)  , Anglo-See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French actor, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, probably in See also:

• LONDON

London, on the 23rd of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1824, of French parents, although his See also:

• MOTHER

mother was of Piedmontese and his See also:

• FATHER

father of See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German extraction . The boy would probablyhave devoted himself to a sculptor's See also:

• LIFE

life but for the See also:

• ACCIDENT
• ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

accident of a striking success made in some private theatricals . The result was an engagement in 1841 to See also:

• PLAY

play in a travelling See also:

• COMPANY

company that was going to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy . The tour was a failure, and the company See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke up; whereupon See also:

• FECHTER, CHARLES ALBERT (1824–1879)

Fechter returned See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home and worked assiduously at See also:

• SCULPTURE
• SCULPTURE (Lat. sculptura, from sculpere, to carve, cognate with Gr. yXb4ew)

sculpture . At the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he attended classes at the See also:

• CONSERVATOIRE (the Fr. equivalent of Ital. Conservatorio, Ger. Conservatorium, from Med. Lat. conservatorium, a place where anything is preserved, Lat. conservare, to preserve)

Conservatoire with the view of gaining See also:

• ADMISSION

admission to the Comedic Francaise . See also:

• LATE

Late in 1844 he won the See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal of the Academie See also:

• DES

des See also:

• BEAUX, CECILIA (1863– )

Beaux-Arts with a piece of sculpture, and was admitted to make his debut at the Comedie Francaise as Seide in See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire's See also:

• MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

Mahomet and Valere in See also:

• MOLIERE (1622-1673)

Moliere's Tartuffe . He acquitted himself with See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit; but, tired of the small parts he found himself condemned to play, returned again to his sculptor's studio in 1846 . In that See also:

• YEAR

year he accepted an engagement to play with a French company in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, where he made his first decisive success as an actor . On his return to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in the following year he married the actress Eleonore Rabut (d . 1895) . Previously he had appeared for some months in London, in a See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season of French classical plays given at the St See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James's See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre . In Paris for the next ten years he fulfilled a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of successful engagements at various theatres, his See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph being his creation at the See also:

• VAUDEVILLE

Vaudeville on the 2nd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1852 of the See also:

• PART

part of Armand See also:

• DUVAL, ALEXANDRE VINCENT
• DUVAL, CLAUDE (1643–1670)

Duval in La See also:

• DAME
• DAME (through the Fr. from Lat. domina, mistress, lady, the feminine of dominus, master, lord)

Dame aux camelias .

For nearly two years (1857–1858) Fechter was manager of the Odeon, where he produced Tartuffe and other classical plays . Having received tempting offers to See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act in See also:

• ENGLISH

English at the Princess's theatre, London, he made a diligent study of the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and appeared there on the 27th of October 186o in an English version of See also:

• VICTOR
• VICTOR, GAIUS JULIUS (4th cent. A.D.)
• VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Victor See also:

• HUGO, GUSTAV VON (1764–1844)
• HUGO, VICTOR MARIE (1802-1885)

Hugo's Ruy Blas . This was followed by The Corsican See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

Brothers and See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don Cesar de Bazan; and on the loth of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1861 he first attempted See also:

• HAMLET

Hamlet . The result was an extraordinary triumph, the play See also:

• RUNNING

running for 115 nights . This was followed by Othello, in which he played alternately the See also:

• MOOR

Moor and lago . In 1863 he became lessee of the See also:

• LYCEUM

Lyceum theatre, which he opened with The See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

Duke's See also:

• MOTTO (an Italian word, from Late Lat. muttum, a low sound, a mutter or murmur, cf. mutere, to mutter; the Latin word also gives Fr. mot, word)

Motto; this was followed by The See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King's Butterfly, The See also:

• MOUNTEBANK (Ital. montambanco, montimbanco, from montare, to climb up on, mount, and banco, bench, cf. saltimbanco, an acrobat' or dancer, one who dances or leaps on a bench)

Mountebank (in which his son See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul, a boy of seven, appeared), The Roadside See also:

• INN

Inn, The See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

Master of Ravenswood, The Corsican Brothers (in the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original French version, in which he had created the parts of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis and See also:

• FABIAN [FABIANUS], SAINT (d. 250)

Fabian dei Franchi) and The See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady of See also:

• LYONS
• LYONS (Fr. Lyon)
• LYONS, COUNCILS OF
• LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, BARON (1790-1858)
• LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1ST EARL (1817–1887)

Lyons . After this he appeared at the Adelphi (1868) as Obenreizer in No Thoroughfare, by See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (1812-187o)

Dickens and See also:

• WILKIE, SIR DAVID (1785–1841)

Wilkie See also:

• COLLINS, ANTHONY (1676-1729)
• COLLINS, JOHN CHURTON (1848-1908)
• COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721-1759)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM (1787–1847)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE (1824–1889)

Collins, as Edmond Dantes in See also:

• MONTE

Monte Cristo, and as See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count de Leyrac in See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

Black and See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White, a play in which the actor himself collaborated with Wilkie Collins . In 1870 he visited the See also:

• UNITED

United States, where (with the exception of a visit to London in 1872) he remained till his See also:

• DEATH

death . His first See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York was at Niblo's See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden in the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title role of Ruy Blas . He played in the United States between 187o and 1876 in most of the parts in which he had won his chief triumphs in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, making at various times attempts at management, rarely successful, owing to his ungovernable See also:

• TEMPER (from Lat. temperare, to mingle or compound in due proportion, to qualify, rule, regulate, to be moderate, formed from tempos, time, fit or due season)

temper . The last three years of his life were spent in seclusion on a See also:

• FARM

farm which he had bought at See also:

• ROCKLAND

Rockland Centre, near Quakertown, See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania, where he died on the 5th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1879 . A bust of the actor by himself is in the See also:

• GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, London .