Jodelet

Julien Geoffrin Verger , known as Jodelet , is a actor French, born with the neighborhoods of 1600 and dead the March 26th 1660 with Paris. It finishes its career in the Troupe of Molière.

Biography

In 1620 it formed already part of the troop of the Théâtre of the Marsh. By order of the king, it passed in 1634 to the Hôtel of Burgundy. But in 1642, it turned over to its first theater. It had become a glory of the Parisian scenes then. Henry Lyonnet describes it as follows: “Large, thin, ugly, the small and sharp eyes, the thick eyebrows, the large mouth, the long and concave nose, it had only to be shown to excite the laughter. ” Moreover he spoke about the nose, which made its play even burlesque.

He had specialized as of his beginnings in the roles of servant, and he had ended up creating an original type of it. It was a kind of servant commonplace, goulu, coward, lustful, crafty one, wretched in his jokes, with a bearded face, man with a moustache and enfariné, laughing at all, piling up blunders on blunders, making enormous silly things which, naturally, fell down on the nose of its Master.

This actor-character became so famous, that the authors wrote parts for him: Scarron made Jodelet or the Master servant (1645), and Jodelet duellist (1646), D' Ouville Jodelet astrologer (1646), and Thomas Corneille Jodelet prince (1655), that Jodelet played.

At Easter 1659, Molière, which had been just fixed at Paris, wished to stick this comic exceptional. It succeeds there, also managing to discharge his brother, Espy, of the Théâtre of the Marsh, where they played both. They began at the same time in Invaluable ridiculous the , Jodelet in the character of the Viscount of Jodelet, that Molière created in particular for him. Either it was Jodelet which held to preserve the same enfariné make-up that with the Marais, or it was Molière which wished it, so that the public found its famous comic; always it is that Jodelet played the part of the Viscount the bleached face. That required an explanation which Mascarille (Molière) provides to scene XI:

Mascarille: “You do not astonish to see the Viscount of the kind: he does nothing but leave a disease which returned the face to him pale as you see it. ”

Jodelet: “They are fruits of the days before of the Court and tirednesses of the war. ”

The effect of this wink to the spectators, which had to make much laugh at the time, is lost today.

He did not play of another part with the Troupe of Molière. Its career of comic was going to stop there. He died in approximately 60 years, the Good Friday March 26th, 1660, street of the Pulleys with Paris, and was buried the following day with Saint-Germain-the Auxerrois.

Some of its roles

Cliton, servant of Gilding, in the Liar of Pierre Corneille (1642);
Cliton, servant of Gilding, in the Continuation of the Liar of Pierre Corneille (1643);
Jodelet in Jodelet or the Master servant of Scarron (1645);
Jodelet in Jodelet duellist of Scarron (1646);
Jodelet in Jodelet astrologer of D' Ouville (1646);
Jodelet in Jodelet prince of Thomas Crow (1646);
the Viscount of Jodelet, servant of of Croisy, in Invaluable ridiculous the on November 18th 1659.

Sources

Henry Lyonnet, Dictionary of the French actors , Library of the Illustrated International Universal review, Paris and Geneva, 1902-1908;
Pierre Larousse Large Universal Dictionary of the 19th century ;
complete Theater of Molière , the Book of pocket.

External bond

Jodelet and its roles on site CÉSAR

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