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Napoleon and Talma - how?
So I've always known that Napoleon and the actor Talma were friends since a period when the former was socially irrelevant, while the latter was already famous.
Does anyone know how they became friends? Any sources? I know Napoleon had always been passionate about theater, but it seems such an odd friendship nonetheless.
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“François-Joseph Talma, the prominent French actor and theatre reformer, addressed the tsar with a line from a play: ‘Friendship of a great man is a gift of the gods’. The tsar rose to his feet, politely pointing at Napoleon, and the two embraced to a thunder of applause. Talma was one of Napoleon’s favourite actors — the emperor frequently employed the thespian as a coach to teach him onstage postures, especially since contemporaries believed they much resembled each other in appearance.”
— Alexander Bogatyrev (source)
La Mode illustrée, no. 40, 5 octobre 1873, Paris. Modèles de chez Mme Bréant-Castel; rue du quatre-septembre, 19. (Les explications des figures de cette page se trouvent sur la plance de patrons.) Talma en drap olive avec ornements en ficelle. Talma double en drap avec broderie. Mantelet en drap bleu-noir. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
Like Talma playing Orestes, killed magnificently yet not dying, his fury ready to leap back to life the next day, or in an hour, or in a minute, a phoenix of rage, always being reborn from its own ashes! . . . And in fact there were certain chords within him that, no matter when you touched them, were taut and ready to vibrate with a power that would astonish anyone unwary enough to have struck them.
— JULES BARBEY D’AUREVILLY ⚜️ Diaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence, transl. by Raymond N. MacKenzie, (2015)
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Even as Napoleon tightened his control over French theatre, he maintained a close friendship with the biggest star of the day, François-Joseph Talma.
New on the blog: Napoleon, theatre and Talma.
Do not reply to me, but love me for my admiration.
Germaine de Staël (1766 - 1817), from a letter to Talma [Geneva?) March 1809 in: “Madame de Staël. Selected correspondence”, translated by Kathleen Jameson-Cemper
