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MONTFLEURY (d. 1667)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 781 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTFLEURY (d. 1667) , See also:French actor, whose real name was Zacharie See also:Jacob, was See also:born in See also:Anjou during the last years of the 16th See also:century. He was enrolled as one of the pages to the duc de See also:Guise, but he ran away to join some strolling players, assuming the name of Montfleury. About 1635 he was a valued member of the See also:company at the Hotel de Bourgogne, and he was in the See also:original See also:cast of the See also:Cid (1636) and of See also:Horace (164o). See also:Richelieu thought highly of him, and when in 1638 Montfleury married the actress Jeanne de la Chalpe (d. 1683), the See also:cardinal desired the ceremony to take See also:place at his own See also:country See also:house at See also:Rueil. Montfleury died in See also:Paris from the rupture of a See also:blood-See also:vessel, while playing the See also:part of See also:Orestes in Andromaque, in See also:December 1667. He was the author of a tragedy, La Mort d'Asdrobal, performed in 1647.

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