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Title: The Galaxy, April, 1877
Vol. XXIII.--April, 1877.--No. 4.

Author: Various

Release Date: May 31, 2010 [EBook #32616]

Language: English

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THE GALAXY.

VOL. XXIII.--APRIL, 1877.--No. 4.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by SHELDON &
CO., in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

THE THEATRE FRANCAIS.

M. Francisque Sarcey, the dramatic critic of the Paris "Temps," and the
gentleman who, of the whole journalistic fraternity, holds the fortune
of a play in the hollow of his hand, has been publishing during the
last year a series of biographical notices of the chief actors and
actresses of the first theatre in the world. "Comediens et Comediennes:
la Comedie Francaise"--such is the title of this publication, which
appears in monthly numbers of the Librairie des Bibliophiles, and is
ornamented on each occasion with a very prettily etched portrait, by M.
Gaucherel, of the artist to whom the number is devoted. By lovers of
the stage in general, and of the Theatre Francais in particular, the
series will be found most interesting; and I welcome the pretext for
saying a few words about an institution which--if such language be not
hyperbolical--I passionately admire. I must add that the portrait is
incomplete, though for the present occasion it is more than sufficient.
The list of M. Sarcey's biographies is not yet filled up; three or
four, those of Mme. Favart and of MM. Febvre and Delaunay, are still
wanting. Nine numbers, however, have appeared--the first being entitled
"La Maison de Moliere," and devoted to a general account of the great
theatre; and the others treating of its principal _societaires_ and
_pensionnaires_ in the following order:

Regnier,
Got,
Sophie Croizette,
Sarah Bernhardt,
Coquelin,
Madeleine Brohan,
Bressant,
Mme. Plessy.

(This order, by the way, is p