Miss Of the Park
See also: Of the Park
Marchioness-Therese de Gorla , known as Miss Of the Park , was a French actress, born in 1633, and died with Paris the December 11th 1668. She belonged to the Troupe of Molière when this one still circulated in province.
Biography
It was the girl of Giacomo de Gorla, which was “operator” with Lyon in 1635.It was extremely beautiful, and several men, with which certain famous, were in love with it during its short existence. It seems that it started as dancer and actress in a troop of countryside, before meeting with Lyon the Troupe of Molière. February 23rd, 1653, it Maria with one of her actors, Rene Berthelot known as Of the Park, large young man who had specialized in the roles of servant. It took then as name of theater Miss Of the Park.
Associated henceforth, via its husband, to the Béjart, Molière and the remainder of the troop, it followed them in their peregrinations in province: Pézenas, Béziers, Nimes, Grenoble, Rouen. It is there that both Crow, Pierre and Thomas, which lived the city, were subjugated at the same time by the quality of the troop and the beauty of Miss Of the Park. According to the habit of the time, they addressed worms to him: Pierre the Sonnet lost with the play , Thomas, more skilful versifier, an elegy of 136 worms. And when the troop left Rouen, Corneille was not satisfied to bid farewell in worms to him:
- Go, beautiful Marchioness, go in other places
It the Jura also, with his/her brother, to insert this actress in their troop of the Theater of the Marsh.
The Troop of Molière having arrived at Paris, Miss Of the Park began in front of the king on October 24th, 1658, with the Louvre in the Thoughtless one or the Hitches , role of Hippolyte, and then in front of the public with the Petit-Bourbon. But the Crow used of all their influence, which they had large, to have the couple Of the Park in their theater. Promising new parts especially written for it, they arrived at their end. At Easter 1659, Park and his wife left Molière, after having shared with him during more than 10 years the rounds of province. To compensate for this loss a little, Molière managed to make make the opposite way with the two brothers Espy and Jodelet.
But this experiment with the Marais was disappointing for the couple. Miss Of the Park, enclosure, could play very little, and, one year later, in Easter 1660, they reinstated the Troupe of Molière.
Molière, which was writing Sganarelle or the imaginary Cuckold , hastened to build a role of Large-Rene for Park, and to entrust to his wife the role of Célie. She connected creations and the recoveries until in at the end of 1666, without interruption, except for the birth of her Jean-Baptist-Rene son. She created even the role of Aglante in the Princess of Elides a few days only after the death of sound husband. Because undoubtedly of its training of dancer, she also excelled in the Ballet S which often accompanied the spectacles. Larousse and Lyonnet brings back both following testimony: “ It made certain remarkable capers, because one saw his legs and part of his thighs, by the means of her split skirt on the two sides, with silk stockings attached to the top of panties ”, exercise which seems to have marked its contemporaries.
She had conquered one of the first places of the troop, and no situation with the theater seemed to appear more enviable for her, when she abruptly left the troop to join that of the Hôtel of Burgundy and her author Jean Racine. This quasi-removal was the reason of the estrangement between Racine and Molière. This last, 18 years the elder one, had provided to the first assistance, support, councils like sometimes its best actors. He did not forgive what he regarded as a treason.
Racine especially wrote for its idol the role of Andromaque, and they knew both of the insane loves. Miss Of the Park was then with the ridge of her glory, adulated by much, when one learned the news from his sudden death on December 11th, 1668. This death seemed so strange that Racine was one worried moment. One spoke about poisoning. Now we know that it was pregnant, and that, widow, it died in layers, probably of an abortion.
Some of its roles
- Hippolyte, girl of Anselme, in Spite in love on December 16th, 1656;
- Célie, girl of Gorgibus, in Sganarelle or the imaginary Cuckold on May 28th, 1660;
- the Night in the Loves of Diane and Endymion , tragedy of Gilbert
- Gives Elvire or Elects, in Dom Garcie de Navarre or the Prince jealous on February 4th, 1661;
- Climène in the Annoying on August 17th, 1661;
- Climène in the Criticism of the school of the women on June 1st, 1663;
- a jobbing marchioness in Impromptu of Versailles on October 14th, 1663;
- Dorimène, vain young person, in the Forced marriage on January 29th, 1664;
- Aglante, cousin of the princess, in the Princess of Elides on May 8th, 1664;
- Gives Elvire, woman of Dom Juan, in Dom the stone Juan or Feast on February 15th, 1665;
- Arsinoë, friend of Célimène, in the Misanthropist or the Man of moods in love on June 4th, 1666;
- Mélicerte in Mélicerte on December 2nd, 1666;
- Andromaque in Andromaque of Root in 1667.
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.
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