Agar (Marie-Léonide Charvin)
Also known as: Agar, Mme Agar
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Agar, stage name of Marie-Léonide Charvin (1832-1891), French tragic actress, admired in Racine and Corneille; engaged at the Comédie-Française until 1871, when her recitation of La Marseillaise at a Commune benefit ended her engagement; she then toured widely (Wikipedia, "Agar (actrice)"; commune1871.org, "Madame Agar, tragédienne").Relevance to Marie
On 1 February 1877 Marie hears her at the Théâtre français in Nice in «Les Horaces» (Corneille's Horace): «Le nom de Rome a vingt fois retenti à mes oreilles d'une façon superbe et sublime» (068.0915). She goes home and reads Livy.References in Diary
- 1877-02-01 (068.0915)