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See also:CHAMPMESLE, See also:MARIE (1642-1698) , See also:French actress, was See also:born in See also:Rouen of a See also:good See also:family. Iler See also:father's name was Desmares. She made her first See also:appearance on the See also:stage at Rouen with See also:Charles Chevillet (1645–1701), who called himself sieur de Champmesle, and they were married in 1666. By 1669 they were playing in See also:Paris at the See also:Theatre du Marais, her first appearance there being as See also:Venus in See also:Boyer's Fete de Venus. The next See also:year, as Hermione in See also:Racine's Andromaque, she had a See also:great success at the Hotel de Bourgogne. Her intimacy with Racine See also:dates from then. Some of his finest tragedies were written for her, but her repertoire was not confined to them, and many an indifferent play—like See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Corneille's Ariane and See also:Comte d'Essex—owed its success to " her natural manner of acting, and her pathetic rendering of the hapless heroine." Phedre was the See also:climax of her triumphs, and when she and her See also:husband deserted the Hotel de Bourgogne (see BEJART ad fin.), it was selected to open the Comedic Fran9aise on the 26th of See also:August 1680. Here, with Mme See also:Guerin as the leading See also:comedy actress, she played the great tragic love parts for more than See also:thirty years, dying on the 15th of May 1698. La See also:Fontaine dedicated to her his novel Belphegor, and Boileau immortalized her in See also:verse. Her husband distinguished himself both as actor and playwright, and his Parisien (1682) gave Mme Guerin one of her greatest successes.
Her See also:brother, the actor See also:NICOLAS DESMARES (c. 1650–1714), began as a member of a subsidized See also:company at See also:Copenhagen, but by her See also:influence he came to Paris and was received in 1685 sans debut—the first 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 such an See also:honour had been accorded—at the Comedie Fran9aise, where he became famous for See also:peasant parts. His daughter, to whom See also:Christian V. and his See also:queen stood sponsors, CHRISTINE ANTOINETTE See also:CHARLOTTE DESMARES (1682—17 J3), was a See also:fine actress in both tragedy and soubrette parts. She made her debut at the Comedie Fran9aise in 1699, in La See also:Grange See also:Chancel's Oreste et Pylade, and was at once received as societaire. She retired in 1721.
End of Article: CHAMPMESLE, MARIE (1642-1698)
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