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DELAUNAY, LOUIS ARSENE (1826-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELAUNAY, See also:LOUIS ARSENE (1826-1903) , See also:French actor, was See also:born in See also:Paris, the son of a See also:wine-seller. He studied at the See also:Conservatoire, and made his first formal See also:appearance on the See also:stage in 1845, in Tartuffe at the Odeon. After three years at this See also:house he made his debut at the Comedie Francaise as Dorante in See also:Corneille's Le Menteur, and began a See also:long and brilliant career in See also:young See also:lover parts. He continued to See also:act as jeune premier until he was sixty, his See also:grace, marvellous diction and See also:passion enchanting his audiences. It was especially in the plays of See also:Alfred de See also:Musset that his gifts found their happiest expression. In the See also:thirty-seven years during which he was a member of the Comedic Francaise, Delaunay took or created nearly two See also:hundred parts. He retired in 1887, having been made a See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1883. ' " Delatores, genus hominum publico exitio repertum . . . per uraemia eliciebantur " (See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, iv. 30).

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