Sophie Croizette (actress)
Also known as: Croizette, Mlle Croizette, Sophie Croizette
Overview
Sophie Croizette (1847-1901) was a leading actress of the Comédie-Française in the 1870s, famous for her beauty and for her rivalry with Sarah Bernhardt, whom she is usually remembered alongside as a star of Octave Feuillet's Le Sphinx (1874). She left the stage about 1882 and married a banker. (Dates and career summary as given in the web sources consulted, which disagree on some details such as the year she joined the troupe; not checked against the Comédie-Française archives.)
Relevance to Marie
Marie sees her at the Théâtre-Français on 18 June 1874 in a double bill, «Le village» and «Le sphinx»: «voilà un théâtre: Croizette est admirable» (020.0360; see #Le Sphinx and #Théâtre-Français). Four years later, at the Julian atelier, she describes a model or fellow student as «Une femme qui ressemble un peu à Croizette» (079.0083, 25 March 1878), taking the actress as a known beauty type.
References in Diary
- 1874-06-19 entry (020.0360; the performance is of the previous evening per LE_SPHINX): «Croizette est admirable» (at Le Sphinx).
- 1878-03-25 (079.0083): «Une femme qui ressemble un peu à Croizette.» The paragraph was tagged with places/streets/CROIZETTE, an empty auto-stub; the reading as the actress is probable, not certain (the paragraph gives no first name).
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