Comédie Française
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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At 18, Bernhardt joined the prestigious company of the Comédie Française theater, in Paris, but she wouldn’t stay long.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
Bernhardt, it seems, became accustomed to the hustle, and not long after she was kicked out of the Comédie Française she broke out in an 1868 revival of “Kean” by Alexandre Dumas.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
As the group approached the Louvre, participants were ambushed by phalanxes of armor-clad riot officers who had hidden near the colonnades of the nearby Comédie Française.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
In the archeological world, there persists a curious legend that, before becoming a Dominican, Père de Vaux was an actor in the Comédie Française.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955
Perhaps one of his ancestors figured in the Cid, in Ruy Blas or some other of the heroic pieces in the repertory of the Comédie Française.
From Luna Benamor by Goldberg, Isaac
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