Hyacinthe (actor)

Louis-Hyacinthe Duflost (15 April 1814 – 8 May 1887), known as Hyacinthe, was a French actor and operetta singer.

Hyacinthe
Born
Louis-Hyacinthe Duflost

(1814-04-15)15 April 1814
Amiens, France
Died8 May 1887(1887-05-08) (aged 73)
Asnières-sur-Seine, France
Occupations
  • Actor
  • operetta singer

Life

Born in Amiens, he became a comic actor very early in life – his father was wigmaker to the magician Louis Compte, whose troupe he joined aged seven. He was part of several companies, including the Ambigu, the Vaudeville and the Variétés. In 1847 he moved to the company of the Palais-Royal, where he remained until his death and appeared very regularly in plays by Eugène Labiche.

His reputation was partly founded on his large nose, remembered by Parisians long after his death. He lived in Montmartre with his wife and children, most notably during the siege of Paris, when he joined the 32nd Battalion of the Garde Nationale aged 60. He later retired to 3 rue d'Orléans in Asnières, where he died in 1887.[1]

His main rôles
Hyacinthe and his famous nose.
Drawing by Georges Lafosse in Le Trombinoscope in 1874.

Variétés

Palais-Royal - Labiche
  • Gindinet in Le Club champenois (1848)
  • Arcas in Une tragédie chez M. Grassot (1848)
  • Panari in Les Manchettes d’un vilain (1849)
  • Balourdeau in Exposition des produits de la République (1849)
  • Mazulim in Le Sopha (1850)
  • Pépinois in Maman Sabouleux (1852)
  • Piccolet in Piccolet (1852)
  • Roussin in Un ut de poitrine (1853)
  • Antoine in La Chasse aux corbeaux (1853)
  • Beauvoisin in Un feu de cheminée (1853)
  • Gigomir in Espagnolas et Boyardinos (1854)
  • Colardeau in Ôtez votre fille, s'il vous plaît (1854)
  • Népomucène in La Fiancée du bon coin (1856)
  • Léopardin in Si jamais je te pince!... (1856)
  • Mistingue in L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine (1857)
  • Bengalo in La Dame aux jambes d'azur (1857)
  • Anatole in Les Noces de Bouchencœur (1857)
  • Évariste in Le Grain de café (1858)
  • Tchikuli in En avant les Chinois ! (1858)
  • Colache in L'Amour, un fort volume, prix 3 F 50 c (1859)
  • Jesabel in Voyage autour de ma marmite (1859)
  • Bougnol in La Sensitive (1860)
  • Malfilatre in La Famille de l'horloger (1860)
  • Pénuri in Les 37 sous de M. Montaudoin (1862)
  • Bocardon in Célimare le bien-aimé (1863)
  • Tapiou in Les Chemins de fer (1867)
  • Sancier in Le Papa du prix d'honneur (1868)
  • Gargaret in Doit-on le dire ? (1872)
  • Ernest Fador in La Pièce de Chambertin (1874)
  • Hochard in Les Samedis de Madame (1874)
  • prince Poupoulos in La Clé (1874 et 1877)

Palais-Royale - other authors

References
  1. (in French) « Tablettes théâtrales »,Le Matin, 10 mai 1887.
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