His playful spirit, his bursting laughter have illuminated the theatrical stage for more than fifty years.
The actress Micheline Boudet, mischievous accomplice of Jean Piat and Robert Hirsch on the trestles, died on July 6 at the age of 96.
Honorary member of the Comédie-Française, she returned as a boarder on September 1, 1945.
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For the French, at first a young first, she camped with rare grace almost all the heroine mutineers of our classical repertoire.
For Molière, Nicole in
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
, Mariane in
L'Avare
or in
Tartuffe,
Hyacinte in
Les Fourberies de Scapin.
Lisette in
Le Jeu de l'amour et du chance
by Marivaux, but also Rosette in
On ne kidding pas avec l'amour
by Musset or Lucette in
Un fil à la patte
by Feydeau...
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In 1966, Micheline Boudet resumed the role of Mme Gamberone in
Un Voyageur
by Maurice Druon, premiered at the Salle Richelieu a few years earlier in a production by Jean Piat.
She will work again with the unforgettable interpreter of Robert d'Artois in
Les Rois maudits
on an innovative creation:
If Camille saw me,
a radio play by Jean Dubillard, broadcast on the airwaves in 1970.
After the French, triumphs at the Boulevard
In 1972, she brilliantly pursued her career in the private theater because at the time, the Comédie-Française could not be combined with the Boulevard.
We will not forget, of course, his formidable composition in
The Mandarin Room
by Robert Thomas in 1974, his jubilation to resume
Do not listen, Ladies!
by Sacha Guitry in 1985, where she shared the bill with Pierre Dux, Jacques François, Micheline Dax in a staging by Pierre Mondy, and finally
Magic Palace
by the indispensable Barillet and Grédy in 1991.
The stage will have been his great passion, and it will never be lacking in our youngest talents.
The history of the vis comica will remember that it appeared alongside Fabrice Luchini in
Rien sur Robert
by Pascal Bonitzer and in
Le Créateur
by Albert Dupontel in 1999.
The "Little Boudet", as the admirable Louis Seigner affectionately called her, devoted another part of her career to writing numerous books and novels inspired by her performing arts.
With
Mademoiselle Mars, the inimitable
published in 1979 by Perrin, she revived the illustrious actress, "
diamond of the Comédie-Française
", with whom she shared so many roles.
"There is a laughter and a voice that continue to resonate in the memories of those who had the privilege of meeting Micheline Boudet or working with her,"
wrote the Comédie-Française about him. announcement of his disappearance.