Eudoxie Laurent

Eudoxie Laurent, real name Eudoxie Louise Laurence Yvos, (30 July 1831 – 15 September 1890[1]) was a 19th-century French actress and singer.

Eudoxie Laurent
Eudoxie Laurent in 1872, photograph by Disdéri from La Vie parisienne
Born
Eudoxie Louise Laurence Yvos

30 July 1831
La Rochelle
Died15 September 1890(1890-09-15) (aged 59)
Asnières
OccupationActress, singer
Spouse(s)Amédée de Jallais

Biography

She appeared, among other, in Un oncle aux carottes by Albert Monnier and Édouard Martin on the stage of the théâtre des Variétés (1854) in the part of Nichette then in Les Fils de Charles Quint by Victor Séjour at the théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique (1864) and in Histoire d'un drapeau by Adolphe d'Ennery (1865).

An actress in the troupe of the théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, she married the playwright Amédée de Jallais in 1862. After she performed at Bobino (1865) and at the Théâtre des Nouveautés (1867), she became a star at the Alcazar d'Été in 1869.

After major roles at the théâtre du Châtelet (La Faridondaine) (1873) and in 1876 at the Théâtre Historique in a revival of La Bergère des Alpes by Marmontel and in full popularity, she must leave the theater because of an illness she died of in 1890.

Bibliography
  • Émile Abraham, Les Acteurs et les actrices de Paris, 1858, (p. 98)
  • Henry Lyonnet, Dictionnaire des comédiens français, 1911, (p. 310)

References
  1. Long obituary in Revue indépendante, vol.16-17, 1890, (p. 412-413) and shorter in L'Art musical September 1890, (p. 127)
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