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GUILBERT, YVETTE (1869— )

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GUILBERT, YVETTE (1869— ) , See also:French disease, was See also:born in See also:Paris. She served for two years until 1885 in the Magasin du Printemps, when, on the See also:advice of the journalist, Edmond Stoullig, she trained for the See also:stage under Landrol. She made her debut at the Bouffes du See also:Nord, then played at the Varietes, and in 1899 she received a See also:regular engagement at the Eldorado to sing a couple of songs at the beginning of the performance. She also sang at the Ambassadeurs. She soon won an immense See also:vogue by her rendering of songs See also:drawn from Parisian See also:lower-class See also:life, or from the humours of the Latin See also:Quarter, " Quatre z'etudiants " and the " Hotel du numero trois " being among her See also:early triumphs. Her See also:adoption of an habitual yellow See also:dress and See also:long See also:black gloves, her studied simplicity of diction, and her ingenuous delivery of songs charged with risque meaning, made her famous. She owed something to M. Xanrof, who for a long See also:time composed songs especially for her, and perhaps still more to Aristide Bruant, who wrote many of her argot songs. She made successful See also:tours in See also:England, See also:Germany and See also:America, and was in See also:great See also:request as an entertainer in private houses. In 189 she married Dr M. See also:Schiller. In later years she discarded something of her earlier manner, and sang songs of the " See also:pompadour " and the " See also:crinoline " See also:period in See also:costume.

She published the novels. La See also:

Vedette and See also:Les Denii-vieilles, both in 1902.

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