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See also:BARON, See also:MICHEL (1653—1729) , See also:French actor (whose See also:family name originally was Boyron), was See also:born in See also:Paris, the son of a leading actor (d. 1655) and of a talented actress (d. 1662). At the See also:age of twelve he joined the See also:company of See also:children known as the Petits Comediens Dauphins, of which he was the brightest See also:star. See also:Moliere was delighted with his See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, and with the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's permission secured him for his own company. In consequence of a misunderstanding with Moliere's wife, the actor withdrew from the dramatist's company, but rejoined it in 167o, reappearing as Domitien in See also:Corneille's See also:Tile et See also:Berenice, and in his See also:Psyche. He remained in this company until Moliere's See also:death. He then became a member of the company at the Hotel de Bourgogne, and from this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time until his retirement in 1691 was undisputed See also:master of the French See also:stage, creating many of the leading roles in See also:Racine's tragedies, besides those in two of his own comedies, L'Homme a bonnes fortunes (1686), and La Coquette (1687). He also wrote See also:Les Enlevements (1685), Le Debauche (1689), and translated and acted two plays of See also:Terence. In 1720 Baron re-appeared at the Palais Royal, and his activity on the stage was421
renewed in a multitude of parts. He died on the 22nd of See also:December 1729.
His son See also:ETIENNE MICHEL BARON (1676—171i) was also a See also:fine actor, and See also:left a son and two daughters who all played at the Comedie Frangaise.
See See also:George Monval, Un Comedien See also:amateur d'See also:art (1893); also the See also:Abbe d'Allamial's Lettres a mylord See also:XXX. sur Baron et la demoiselle See also:Lecouvreur, in F. G. J. S. See also:Andrieux's Collection See also:des mimoires See also:sus fart dramatique (1822).
End of Article: BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)
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