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Updated: May 3, 2025
I saw Sarah Bernhardt for the first time, and Madame Favart, Croisette, Delaunay, and Got. I never thought Croisette a superb animal a "patch" on Sarah, who was at this time as thin as a harrow. Even then I recognized that Sarah was not a bit conventional, and would not stay long at the Comédie. Yet she did not put me out of conceit with the old school.
Fete given by the comtesse de Valentinois The comtesse du Barry feigns an indisposition Her dress The duc de Cosse The comte and comtesse de Provence Dramatic entertainment Favart and Voisenon A few observations A pension The marechale de Luxembourg Adventure of M. de Bombelles Copy of a letter addressed to him Louis XV M. de Maupeou and madame du Barry
Monsieur Favart, then, was a man of the most daring bravery in facing rogues and cut-throats. He awed them with his very eye; yet he had been known to have been kicked down-stairs by his wife, and when he was drawn into the grand army, he deserted the eve of his first battle. Such, as moralists say, is the inconsistency of man!
His voice had chased away the spectres, and I opened my eyes and paid attention to the worthy man's advice. He was rather pleased with my way of reciting, and he taught me a few of the traditions. At the line, Eurybate a l'autel, conduisez la victime, he said, "Mademoiselle Favart was very effective there." The artistes gradually began to arrive, grumbling more or less.
I mean the introduction to my service of the clerk Felix; who, proving worthy of confidence, remained with me after the lamentable death of the King my master, and is to-day one of those to whom I entrust the preparation of these Memoirs. In a room on the second floor of a house in the Rue Favart in Paris a large room scantily and untidily furnished a man sat reading by the light of an oil lamp.
Hypolite." "I know Favart," said Christine, "he was in our service for a long while; a wild but otherwise good man; I am only surprised that he could have again abandoned his sect. But is this the misfortune that you bewail so much, Marshal?"
His disappointment at not seeing the performance was so keen that M. Thierry, then administrateur of La Comédie, took Mlle. Favart to the rue Montparnasse, that she might recite his verses to the dying writer. When the actress, then in the zenith of her fame and beauty, came to the lines—
"The man who moves will be shot dead without further warning. It is useless to dream of resistance, for my men are fully armed, while you are not; therefore, to save unnecessary bloodshed, I beg that you will at once surrender. You see the force of my argument, I am sure, Monsieur Favart?"
Her version, produced at the Théâtre Français, in 1856, failed to please, although supported by such actors as Delaunay, Arnold-Plessy, and Favart.
The theater was brilliantly lighted; the guests, from the environs and the fine fleur of Compiegne, filled all the boxes. The gentlemen and the officers were in the parquet. The Court and Imperial guests sat with their Majesties in the Imperial box. It was a magnificent sight! Madame Favart was most touching in her part, and everybody, I think, wept.
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