Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The sociétaires of the Comédie-Française are chosen from among the pensionnaires who have been in the company a year or more.
They are decided upon in the course of a general assembly of the company's administrative committee, made up of 6 existing sociétaires, the senior sociétaire, and the general administrator. A pensionnaire is thus named a societaire by a decree of the Ministry of Culture, from names put forward by the general administrator of the Comédie-Française. On becoming a sociétaire, an actor automatically becomes a member of the Société des Comédiens-Français and receives a share of the profits as well as receiving a number of shares in the société to which he or she is contractually linked.
After his or her retirement, a sociétaire can continue to act, becoming an honorary sociétaire. The senior member of the Comédie-Française is not the oldest sociétaire, but the sociétaire who has been with the company longest (since their entering it as a pensionnaire).
Contents |
[edit] Some Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
[edit] 17th century
- Michel Baron (1680)
- Armande Béjart (1680)
- Mademoiselle de Brie (1680)
- Champmeslé (1680)
- Marie Champmeslé (1680)
- Mademoiselle Du Croisy (1680)
- Mademoiselle La Grange (1680)
- Raymond Poisson, known as Belleroche (1680)
- Brécourt (1682)
- Dancourt (1685)
- Jean Quinault (1695)
[edit] 18th century
|
|
[edit] 19th century
- Mademoiselle George (1804)
- Rachel (1842)
- Coquelin aîné (1864)
- Mounet-Sully (1874)
- Sarah Bernhardt (1875)
- Marthe Brandès (1896)
[edit] 20th century
|
|
|
|
[edit] 21st century
- Françoise Gillard (2002)
- Alexandre Pavloff (2002)
- Clotilde de Bayser (2004)
- Laurent Stocker (2004)
- Guillaume Gallienne (2005)
- Elsa Lepoivre (2007)
- Laurent Natrella (2007)
- Michel Vuillermoz (2007)
