Hyacinthe (actor)
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Louis-Hyacinthe Duflost, known as Hyacinthe (15 April 1814 – 8 May 1887) was a French actor and operetta singer.
Life[]
Born in Amiens, he became a comic actor very early in life - his father was wigmaker to the magician , whose he joined aged seven. He was part of several companies, including the Ambigu, the Vaudeville and the Variétés. In 1847 he moved to the company of the Palais-Royal, where he remained until his death and appeared very regularly in plays by Eugène Labiche.
His reputation was partly founded on his large nose, remembered by Parisians long after his death. He lived in Montmartre with his wife and children, most notably during the siege of Paris, when he joined the 32nd Battalion of the Garde Nationale aged 60. He later retired to 3 rue d'Orléans in Asnières, where he died in 1887.[1]
His main rôles[]
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Drawing by Georges Lafosse in Le Trombinoscope in 1874.
Variétés[]
- Gringalet in Les Saltimbanques by Dumersan and Varin (25 janvier 1838)
- The seducer in Les Trois Épiciers
- Faucheux in Le Maître d'école by Lockroy and Anicet-Bourgeois (20 mars 1841)
- Thibaudeau in Ma maîtresse et ma femme by Dumanoir and Adolphe d'Ennery (25 novembre 1842)
Palais-Royal - Labiche[]
- Gindinet in (1848)
- Arcas in (1848)
- Panari in (1849)
- Balourdeau in (1849)
- Mazulim in (1850)
- Pépinois in (1852)
- Piccolet in (1852)
- Roussin in (1853)
- Antoine in (1853)
- Beauvoisin in (1853)
- Gigomir in (1854)
- Colardeau in (1854)
- Népomucène in (1856)
- Léopardin in (1856)
- Mistingue in (1857)
- Bengalo in (1857)
- Anatole in (1857)
- Évariste in (1858)
- Tchikuli in (1858)
- Colache in (1859)
- Jesabel in (1859)
- Bougnol in (1860)
- Malfilatre in (1860)
- Pénuri in (1862)
- Bocardon in (1863)
- Tapiou in (1867)
- Sancier in (1868)
- Gargaret in (1872)
- Ernest Fador in (1874)
- Hochard in (1874)
- prince Poupoulos in (1874 et 1877)
Palais-Royale - other authors[]
- Arthur de Clichy in Le Fils de la belle au bois dormant (1858) by Lambert-Thiboust, Paul Siraudin and Adolphe Choler
- Nérée Dusorbet in La Pénélope à la mode de Caen (1860) by Lambert-Thiboust, Paul Siraudin and Eugène Grangé
- Picardeau in Les Femmes sérieuses (1864) by Paul Siraudin, Alfred Delacour and Ernest Blum
- The baron de Gondremarck in La Vie parisienne (1866) by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, music by Jacques Offenbach
- Maître Massepain in Le château à Toto (1868) by Meilhac and Halévy, music by Jacques Offenbach
- Chiffardin in Le Carnaval d’un merle blanc (1868) by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru
- the marquis de Castel-Bombé in La Vie de château (1869) by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru
- Alfred in Le Réveillon (1872) by Meilhac and Halévy
- le duc de la Butte-Jonvel in La Tribune mécanique (1872) by Georges Vibert and Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour
- Les Échos de Paris ou la Revue en retard (1873) by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru
- Alcide Malicorne in Ici, Médor (1875) by
- Birochet in (1875) by Edmond Gondinet
- Pulverin in L’Homme du Lapin blanc (1875) by Alfred Duru
- Vernouillet in La Chaste Suzanne (1877) by Paul Ferrier
- Édouard in Les Demoiselles de Montfermeil (1878) by and Théodore Barrière
- Belgodère in Tant plus ça change (1878) by Edmond Gondinet and Pierre Véron
- Beaudichon in Le Volcan (1882) by Edmond Gondinet, and Pierre Giffard
- Brochondans in Le Train de plaisir (1884) by Alfred Hennequin, Albert de Saint-Albin et Arnold Mortier
- Lord in La Fille à Georgette (1886) by .
References[]
- ^ (in French) « Tablettes théâtrales »,Le Matin, 10 mai 1887.
External links[]
- 19th-century French male actors
- French male stage actors
- French male singers
- 1814 births
- 1887 deaths
- People from Amiens
- 19th-century male singers