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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 500 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLEURY [See also:ABRAHAM See also:JOSEPH BENARD] (1750-.1822)  , See also:French actor, was See also:born at See also:Chartres on the 26th of See also:October x75o, and began his See also:stage See also:apprenticeship at, See also:Nancy, where his See also:father was at the See also:head of a See also:company of actors attached to the See also:court of See also:King See also:Stanislaus . After four years in the provinces, he came to See also:Paris in 1778, and almost immediately was madesocietaire at the ComedieFrancaise, although the public was slow to recognize him as the greatest comedian of his See also:time . In 1793 See also:Fleury, like the See also:rest of his See also:fellow-players, was arrested in consequence of the presentation of See also:Laya's L' See also:Anti See also:des leis, and, when liberated, appeared at various theatres until, in 1799, he rejoined the rehabilitated Comedic Frarrcaise . After See also:forty years of service he retired in 1818 ! And died on the 3rd of See also:March 1822 . He was notoriously illiterate, and it is probable that the interesting Memoire de Fleury owes more to its author, Lafitte, than to the subject whose " notes and papers " it is said to contain .

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