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François Jules Edmond Got

François Jules Edmond Got (October 1, 1822 - 1901), French actor, was born at Lignerolles .

He entered the Conservatoire in 1841, winning the second prize for comedy that year and the first in 1842. After a year of military service he made his debut at the Comédie Française on July 17, 1844, as Alexis in Les Héritiers and Mascarelles in Les Précieuses ridicules. He was immediately admitted pensionnaire, and became socitaire in 1850. By special permission of the emperor in 1866 he played at the Odon in Emile Augier's Contagion. His golden jubilee at the Théâtre Français was celebrated in 1894, and he made his final appearance the year after.

Got was a fine representative of the grand style of French acting, and was much admired in England as well as in Paris. He wrote the libretto of the opera François Villon (1357) and also of L'Esclave (1874). In 1881 he was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honour.


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