Frédérick Lemaître

Frédérick Lemaître , born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaître with the Harbor the July 21st 1800 and died with Paris the January 26th 1876, is a Acteur French. He was one of the most famous actors of the Boulevard of the crime.

Biography

Lemaître, after studies with the Conservatory , chooses the first name of scene “Frédérick”. Refused initially by the Theater of Odéon, it signs an engagement with the Théâtre of Variety-Amusing the for a part with three actors, Pyrame and Thysbé . It played the part of the lion there. Then it begins truly its career of actor on the “boulevard of the crime” in melodramas. It creates in particular the character inspired of the gangster Robert Macaire in the Inn of the Adrets .

Victor Hugo, which sees in him the genious actor, also distributes it in roles of young first sensitive, Ruy Blas or the Gennaro young person in Lucrèce Borgia . It creates also the role of Kean of Alexandre Dumas and makes discover with the French public Hamlet of William Shakespeare. Victor Hugo in vain tried to make it admit with the Comédie-Française which refused it.

When the popularity of the romantic drama started to decrease, it entered to the Boulevard where it was a durable success, which was worth to him the nickname of “Talma of the boulevards”.

It is itself become, under the feather of Jacques Prévert, a character in the film the Children of the paradise of Marcel Carné, interpreted with brilliance by Pierre Brasseur. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt also made of it the hero of its part Frédérick or the Boulevard of the Crime .

A street of the XX {{E}} district of Paris and a public garden of the X {{E}} bear its name.

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