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town of Moundsville (laid out on the Ohio river in 1831, and incorporated in 1832), and the town of Elizabethtown (laid out, about a m. from the river, in 1798, and incorporated in 1830). MOUNET-See also:

SULLY, See also:

JEAN

JEAN (1841- ), See also:

French actor, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

BERGERAC

Bergerac, on the 28th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February, 1841. He entered the See also:

CONSERVATOIRE (the Fr. equivalent of Ital. Conservatorio, Ger. Conservatorium, from Med. Lat. conservatorium, a place where anything is preserved, Lat. conservare, to preserve)

Conservatoire at the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty-one, and took the first See also:

PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize for tragedy.

In 1868 he made his debut at the Odeon without attracting much See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention. His career was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian See also:

War, and the liking he See also:

DEVELOPED

developed for soldiering had almost decided him to give up the See also:

STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, when he was offered the opportunity of playing the See also:

PART

part of Oreste in See also:

Racine's Andromaque at the Comedie Francaise in 1872. His striking presence and See also:

VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice and the passionate vigour of his acting made an immediate impression, and the eventual result was his See also:

election as societaire in 1874. He became one of the mainstays of the Comedie Frangaise, and distinguished himself in a See also:

GREAT

great variety of tragic and romantic parts. Perhaps his most famous impersonation was that of See also:

OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")

Oedipus in L'Oedipe roi, a French version by Jules See also:

Lacroix of See also:

SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.)

Sophocles's See also:

DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama. This was first performed in the old See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

AMPHITHEATRE (Gr. 441, around, and O&arpov, a place for spectators)

amphitheatre at See also:

Orange in 1888. Other prominent parts in Mounet-Sully's repertoire were Achille in Racine's I phigenie en Aulide, Hippolyte in Padre, See also:

HAMLET

Hamlet, the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title parts in See also:

Victor See also:

Hugo's Hernani and Ruy See also:

Bias, See also:

Francis I. in Le Roi s'amuse, and Didier in See also:

Marion See also:

DELORME, MARION (c. 1613-165o)

Delorme. He was created See also:

chevalier of the See also:

LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour in 1889. He also wrote a See also:

PLAY

play, La Buveuse de larmes, and in 1906, in collaboration with See also:

PIERRE

Pierre See also:

Barbier, La Vieillesse de See also:

Don Juan in See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse.

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