Augustine Brohan
Illustration — Augustine Brohan Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (1824–1893) was a French actress. The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Émilie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy. The soubrette part, entrusted for more than 150 years at the Comédie-Française to a succession of artists of the first rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on May 19, 1841, as Dorine in Tartuffe, and Lise in Rivaux deux-mêmes.
Also recorded as Josephine-Felicite-Augustine Brohan · Suzanne
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- Full name
- Josephine Félicité Augustine Brohan.
- Born
- 1824. · former 11th arrondissement of Paris.
- Died
- sources differ (1893 and 1885). · rue Lord-Byron.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- actress, salonnière, chronicler and dramaturge.
- Education
- Conservatoire de Paris.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Augustine Brohan Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (1824–1893) was a French actress. The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Émilie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy. The soubrette part, entrusted for more than 150 years at the Comédie-Française to a succession of artists of the first rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on May 19, 1841, as Dorine in Tartuffe, and Lise in Rivaux deux-mêmes.
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Recorded at birth as Josephine Félicité Augustine Brohan. Also worked under the name Suzanne. Born at former 11th arrondissement of Paris in 1824, died at rue Lord-Byron in 1893.
Augustine Brohan studied at Conservatoire de Paris. The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.
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former 11th arrondissement of Paris.
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