2023-08-09 20:04:44
Mary Marquet, in 1920. (c) Studio Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet
WRITERS AND STARS: THE TIME OF PASSIONS (4/6) – In 1915, the author of Cyrano, academician and covered with honors, meets a very young actress… This one will survive him, to the point of appearing in La Grande Mop.
They are famous or soon-to-be famous writers, single or married. Nothing necessarily predisposes them to these encounters. And yet their lives will, overnight, be turned upside down, after they have met an actress, an actress or a singer. Account of these liaisons which, in one way or another, will inspire their work.
He is 47 years old, she is 20. At the beginning of their affair, in 1915, Edmond Rostand is a national glory. Elected to the French Academy at the age of 33, he frequented the literary and political Tout-Paris. He is also a popular author, thanks to his way of making the French language sing. In 1899, Cyrano, a hero with a noble heart, a magnificent vanquished, had conquered that of the public. Mary Marquet, she is a beautiful stranger, the daughter of actors, who is embarking on a theatrical career. Her parents had predicted to her that she had no future on the boards because of her tall height: 1.80 m. She persisted. Her father introduced her to his friend Sarah…
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