Cecile Sorel

Cecile Sorel , of her true name Cecile Emilie Seurre , born with Paris the September 17th 1873 and died with Trouville-on-Sea the September 3rd 1966, is a French actress of Théâtre .

Biography

Very early attracted by the theater, it is allowed in 1903 with the Comédie-Française where it interprets all the traditional roles of the French repertory. It remains unforgettable in the role of Célimène of Molière.

Eternal been engaged of Witney Warren, American richissime, it Marie finally and against any waiting with the count de Ségur, nephew of the writer, poor actor called on scene Guillaume of Saxony. More than twenty years separate the husbands and this marriage gives place to the cruelest mockeries. One calls the couple “hammer and sickle”, “the beautiful one and it stupid”, etc Cécile and the count de Ségur separate without however never divorcing. Cécile Sorel will remain all her life countess of Ségur. In 1933, it the famous one “did I launch descend It well? ” with the foot of the Dorian staircase of the Casino of Paris. This only sentence will be worth the celebrity to him.

After the Second world war and some concerns with the Release based on calumnies, it turns the Pearls of the crown of Sacha Guitry. Lastly, on August 15th 1950, it is seized by a spectacular conversion and pronounces its wishes in the Tiers Order franciscain in the vault of the Carmes of Bayonne. Its last years are devoted to the writing and the faith. She dies in 1966, with quatre-vingt-douze years with Trouville-on-Sea (Apple-brandy), with the castle of Hennequeville, which had been rented to him by Jean Dupuy says the baron Barclay. She was a large friend of Maurice Barrès and Maurice Escande. She is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse in Paris. With Biarritz, she lived either with the Mirasol villa, close to the Hotel of the Palate, or in a continuation which she rented at the year with the Continental hotel.

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