Worms

Overview

The entry covers two different mentions of the name «Worms»:

1. Gustave Worms (1836-1910), actor of the Comédie-Française, a pupil of the Conservatoire who joined the company in 1858, spent about ten years in Russia and returned to the French stage in the later 1870s (Wikipedia, «Gustave Worms»; BnF data record). On 29 December 1878 Marie, at the theatre with Capoul in the house, notes: «Puis Mounet Sully et Worms du Français. M. Sully est très beau, le plus bel homme de Paris à ce qu'on trouve» (083.0497). Mon Journal t.12 index: «Worms (Gustave), acteur : 184». 2. «Chez Worms», Paris, 1874: on 28 September 1874 Marie's party dines at Renard's, finds the «diacre», and «le diacre propose d'aller chez Worms, on y va on n'achète rien et c'est tout» (024.0151). This is a shop or business, not the actor (the actor was in Russia at the time, per the sources above); the Mon Journal t.4 index has «Worms, 161» without description. Not identified.

In Marie's diary

• 1878-12-29 (083.0497, Paris): the actor.

Not to be confused with Mme Worms.