Mounet-Sully

"My frail body is exhausted by the act of love," she informed the actor Charles Mounet-Sully, the man who captured her heart, to the extent that it was possible.

Actress, Seductress Norman Lebrecht 2010

They sat in the centre of the stalls, in the same row as Jean Mounet-Sully, reckoned by Bernhardt to have been the best Hamlet of her time, alongside the composer Charles Gounod, and the grey-faced poet Maurice Rollinat.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

They sat in the centre of the stalls, in the same row as Jean Mounet-Sully, reckoned by Bernhardt to have been the best Hamlet of her time, alongside the composer Charles Gounod, and the grey-faced poet Maurice Rollinat.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

For thirty minutes, as he pulled on stockings and trews, and fiddled with cuffs and collars, he talked of Frédéric Lemaître and Edmond Got, of Mounet-Sully and Talma and Réjane.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

For thirty minutes, as he pulled on stockings and trews, and fiddled with cuffs and collars, he talked of Frédéric Lemaître and Edmond Got, of Mounet-Sully and Talma and Réjane.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

For thirty minutes, as he pulled on stockings and trews, and fiddled with cuffs and collars, he talked of Frédéric Lemaître and Edmond Got, of Mounet-Sully and Talma and Réjane.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

For thirty minutes, as he pulled on stockings and trews, and fiddled with cuffs and collars, he talked of Frédéric Lemaître and Edmond Got, of Mounet-Sully and Talma and Réjane.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

For thirty minutes, as he pulled on stockings and trews, and fiddled with cuffs and collars, he talked of Frédéric Lemaître and Edmond Got, of Mounet-Sully and Talma and Réjane.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

They sat in the centre of the stalls, in the same row as Jean Mounet-Sully, reckoned by Bernhardt to have been the best Hamlet of her time, alongside the composer Charles Gounod, and the grey-faced poet Maurice Rollinat.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

They sat in the centre of the stalls, in the same row as Jean Mounet-Sully, reckoned by Bernhardt to have been the best Hamlet of her time, alongside the composer Charles Gounod, and the grey-faced poet Maurice Rollinat.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009