Jane Henriot: Difference between revisions

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| birth_name = Jeanne Angèle Grossin

| birth_place = 21 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, [[9th arrondissement of Paris]]

| death_place = [[Comédie-Française]], [[1st arrondissement of Paris]]

| death_cause = Suffocated and asphyxiated due to fire

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| partner = [[Charles le Bargy]]

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==Early life==

 

 

She studied at the [[CNSAD|Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Paris]].<ref name="étoile"/> where she became the mistress of actor and director [[Charles le Bargy]],<ref name="étoile"/> who was her professor at the time.<ref name="étoile"/> He eventually left her to marry [[Simone Le Bargy|Madame Simone]], who was no happier with her than he had been with Henriot.<ref name="Bargy">{{cite web |url=https://www.actualitte.com/article/livres/jane-henriot-le-bargy-madame-simone-un-spectacle-au-theatre-proscenium/61088|title=Jane Henriot, Le Bargy, Madame Simone... Un spectacle au Théâtre Proscenium|publisher=Actualitte.com |accessdate=2020-05-04}}</ref>

==Professional career==

 

===Stage career===

 

 

==Death, funeral and memorial service==

 

Just before noon on 8 March 1900, after a matinee where she was playing the role of the confidant Zaïde in [[Jean Racine]]'s play ''[[Bajazet (play)|Bajazet]]''

at the Comédie-Française, an explosion and fire broke out.<ref name="schuda">{{cite web |url=http://www.schudak.de/timelines/francelabelle%C9poque-part21900%961904.html|title=The World at War - France La Belle Époque - Part 2 1900 – 1904|publisher=www.schudak.de |accessdate=2020-05-04}}</ref> Henriot was on the fourth floor of the theater.<ref name="worthpoint"/> Her dresser had a better knowledge of place and could find her own way out and through a window.<ref name="worthpoint"/> Mary Marquet told her to get out of the fire, however Henriot was trying to find her little dog, which was a gift from Le Bargy, whom she had recently broken-up with.<ref name="worthpoint"/> Henriot was still wandered around the building when she died of asphyxiation.<ref name="worthpoint"/> Her body was later found, but it was unrecognisable, her face blackened, burnt hair and body convulsed.<ref name="worthpoint"/> Her mother identified the body in the morgue.<ref name="worthpoint"/>

 

Two days later, a large crowd gathered at her funeral, and the convoy passed through Paris to the church of Saint-Honoré-d'Eylau, the [[Montmartre]] cemetery.<ref name="worthpoint"/> Shortly after her death, the Comédie-Française wanted a portrait of Henriot.<ref name="étoile"/> On the advice of her mother, they gave the portrait painter [[Carolus-Duran]] the task of making a portrait of Henriot, having previous painted another actress Jeanne Samary in 1885.<ref name="étoile"/> Carolus-Duran had known Henriot and was inspired by the photographs taken by Reutlinger, which were published on postcards.<ref name="étoile"/>

 

A year after her death on 8 March 1901, a memorial service was held in [[Saint-Roch, Paris]],<ref name="worthpoint"/> where her friends went to her tomb which was sculpted by [[Denys Puech]] above a white marble monument by the architect Marcel Dourgnon with the following words having been engraved on the base of the tomb: "À Jane Henriot, la Comédie-Française" (English: To Jane Henriot, the French-Comedy),<ref name="worthpoint"/> with an inscription taken from an article by [[Émile Faguet]]: ...Elle est venue, Elle a souri, Elle a passé! (English: She came, She smiled, She has passed!)<ref name="worthpoint"/>

 

==Gallery==

 

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==See also==

* [[Theatre of France]]

 

 

 

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