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JANE See also:HADING (1859– ) , See also:French actress, whose real name was Jeanne Alfredine Trefouret, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:November 1859 at See also:Marseilles, where her See also:father was an actor at the Gymnase . She was trained at the See also:local See also:Conservatoire and was engaged in 1873 for the See also:theatre at See also:Algiers, and afterwards for the Khedivial theatre at See also:Cairo, where she played, in turn, coquette, soubrette and ingenue parts . Expectations had been raised by her See also:voice, and when she returned to Marseilles she sang in operetta, besides acting in Ruy Blas . Her See also:Paris debut was in La Chaste Suzanne at the Palais Royal, and she was again heard in operetta at the See also:Renaissance . In 1883 she had a See also:great success at the Gymnase in Le Maitre de forges . In 1884 she married See also:Victor Koning (1842–1894), the manager of that theatre, but divorced him in 1887 . In 1888 she toured See also:America with See also:Coquelin, and on her return helped to give success to See also:Lavedan's See also:Prince d'Aurec, at the See also:Vaudeville . Her reputation as one of the leading actresses of the See also:day was now established not only in See also:France but in America and See also:England . Her later repertoire included Le Demi-monde, See also:Capus's La Chdtelaine, See also:Maurice See also:Donnay's Retour de See also:Jerusalem, La Princesse Georges by See also:Dumas fits, and Emile Bergerat's Plus que See also:rein . |
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