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Barrault

American  
[ba-roh] / baˈroʊ /

noun

  1. Jean-Louis 1910–1994, French actor and director.


Barrault British  
/ baro /

noun

  1. Jean-Louis (ʒɑ̃lwi). 1910–94, French actor and director, noted particularly as a mime

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He continued his education in Paris, where he studied with the actor Jean-Louis Barrault and the mime Etienne Decroux.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2022

The stillness, shot through with dancers’ gestures of intimate dismay, recalls the thoughtful, mesmerizing Jean-Louis Barrault, as the mime in Marcel Carné’s “Les Enfants du Paradis.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2016

Today, Barrault is a mother of two grown children from her first marriage to producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, and she's a grandmother of six.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2015

The filmmakers also interviewed one of Gould’s last girlfriends, the soprano Roxolana Roslak, and Frances Batchen Barrault, who was his teenage sweetheart.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2010

The Maison Barrault in the Logis Barrault, built by a former mayor of the city, one time Chancellor of Brittany, was the scene of the magnificent entertainment offered C�sar Borgia in 1497.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche

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