Zélie Hadamard

Zélie Hadamard
Zélie Hadamard
Born	September 30, 1849; Oran, French Algeria
Died	October 5, 1902 (aged 53); Paris, France
Burial place	Montparnasse Cemetery

Zélie Hadamard (September 30, 1849 – October 5, 1902) was a French actress.

Biography

Zélie Hadamard was born into a Jewish family in Oran, Algeria, in 1849. Her father, David Hadamard [Wikidata], was a noted Arabist who died whe she was six weeks old. Her first cousin was mathematician Jacques Hadamard, and her uncle was painter Auguste Hadamard [fr].^[2]

She went to Paris and passed at the Conservatoire, where she studied under tragedian Pierre-François Beauvallet.^[3] She made her stage début at the Odéon. After playing in Brussels and Rouen she returned to Paris, where she appeared at several theatres.^[4] At the Odéon, and later the Comédie-Française, she filled and created many important parts, especially in classic tragedy.

She died in October 1902 due to complications from surgery, at the age of 53.^[5]^[6]

Roles

1879: Mademoiselle Danton in Camille Desmoulins by Emile Moreau^[3]
1879: Sabine in Gros bonnets de Krœhwinckel by Kotzebue, translated by Gustave Bertrand^[3]
1879: Fleur de lys and Esmeralda in Notre-Dame de Paris by Paul Foucher, adapted from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame^[3]
1879: Martha in L'Inquisition by Gélis^[3]
1880: Andrée in Les Mouchards by Jules Moinaux and Paul Parfait^[3]
1882: Louise Baudoin in L'Incendiaire by Benjamin Antier and Alexis Decomberousse^[3]
1882: Cécile Tussaud in La grande Iza by Alexis Bouvier and William Bertrand Busnach
1882: Mimi in La vie de Bohême^[3]
1883: Adrienne de Reuilly in Le mariage d'André by Hippolyte Lemaire and Philippe Rouvre^[3]
1883: Mademoiselle de Romanet in Le mariage de Racine by Guillaume Livet and Gustave Vautrey^[3]
1883: Phèdre in Phèdre by Jean Racine^[3]
1885: Vivette in L'Arlésienne by Georges Bizet
1887: Andromaque by Jean Racine

References

^ "Courrier des Spectacles". Le Gaulois (in French). Vol. 37, no. 9123. Paris. October 6, 1902. p. 3.
^ Maz'ya, Vladimir; Shaposhnikova, Tatyana (1999). Jacques Hadamard: A Universal Mathematician. History of Mathematics. Vol. 14. American Mathematical Society. pp. 7–9. ISBN 978-0-8218-1923-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Quépat, Nérée (1887). "Hadamard (Zélie)". Dictionnaire biographique de l'ancien département de la Moselle contenant toutes les personnes notables de cette région (in French). Paris: Alphonse Picard. pp. 224–225.
^ Laroque, Adrien (1889). Acteurs et actrices de Paris (in French). Paris: L'entr'acte. p. 28.
^ "Mort de Mme Hadamard". L'Ouest-Éclair (in French). Vol. 4, no. 1143. October 7, 1902. p. 1.
^ "Nécrologie". Le Ménestrel (in French). October 12, 1902. p. 327.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Emanuel, Victor Rousseau (1904). "Hadamard, Zélie". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 131–132.