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One is an actor by virtue of being ahead of mankind in one insight: what is meant to have the effect of truth must not be true. The proposition was formulated by Talma; it contains the whole psychology of the actor; it also contains--we need not doubt it--his morality. Wagner's music is never
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It was as a juvenile lead that he first came to prominence, and he only gradually achieved his unrivalled position as the exponent of strong and concentrated passion. Talma was among the earliest advocates of realism in scenery and costume, being aided by his friend, the painter
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Talma possessed the physical gifts to enable him to excel, a striking appearance and a voice of beauty and power, which he gradually trained to perfection. At first somewhat stilted and monotonous in his manner, he came to be regarded as a model of simplicity. Talma married
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and short Roman haircut, much to the surprise of an audience accustomed to 18th century costume on stage, regardless of whether it suited the part played. He is often credited with having introduced the male
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By the 1820s, Talma was established as "the dominant personality at the Comédie-Française, where he alone could still successfully impose classical tragedy upon the public". It was at this time that a young
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Talma made his last appearance on 11 June 1826 as Charles VI in Delaville's tragedy, and he died in Paris on 19 October of that year.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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references one of Talma's dictums while derisively characterizing
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and other revolutionists. It was in Chenier's anti-monarchical
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to a company of crowned heads. Five years later he took him to
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page 45, published by Dramatic Museum of Columbia University.
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made the house burst into a salvo of applause, led by
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The Titans: A Three Generation Biography of the Dumas
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François Joseph Talma

Paris

Britannicus
Eugène Delacroix
Paris
London
Comédie-Française
Voltaire
Mahomet
Jacques-Louis David
Brutus
toga
Neoclassical hairstyle

Julie Carreau
Girondists
Napoleon
French Army
Elba
Louis XVIII
Erfurt
Dresden
Joseph Chénier
Georges Danton
Camille Desmoulins
Charles IX
Bastille
Mirabeau

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