Zélie Hadamard

Zélie Hadamard was born into a Jewish family in Oran, Algeria, in 1849. Her father, David Hadamard, was a noted Arabist who died whe she was six weeks old. Her first cousin was mathematician Jacques Hadamard, and her uncle was painter Auguste Hadamard.[2]

She went to Paris and passed at the Conservatoire, where she studied under tragedian Pierre-François Beauvallet.[3] She made her stage début at the Odéon. After playing in Brussels and Rouen she returned to Paris, where she appeared at several theatres.[4] At the Odéon, and later the Comédie-Française, she filled and created many important parts, especially in classic tragedy.

She died in October 1902 due to complications from surgery, at the age of 53.[5][6]

• 1879: Mademoiselle Danton in Camille Desmoulins by Emile Moreau[3]
• 1879: Sabine in Gros bonnets de Krœhwinckel by Kotzebue, translated by Gustave Bertrand[3]
• 1879: Fleur de lys and Esmeralda in Notre-Dame de Paris by Paul Foucher, adapted from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame[3]
• 1879: Martha in L'Inquisition by Gélis[3]
• 1880: Andrée in Les Mouchards by Jules Moinaux and Paul Parfait[3]
• 1882: Louise Baudoin in L'Incendiaire by Benjamin Antier and Alexis Decomberousse[3]
• 1882: Cécile Tussaud in La grande Iza by Alexis Bouvier and William Bertrand Busnach
• 1882: Mimi in La vie de Bohême[3]
• 1883: Adrienne de Reuilly in Le mariage d'André by Hippolyte Lemaire and Philippe Rouvre[3]
• 1883: Mademoiselle de Romanet in Le mariage de Racine by Guillaume Livet and Gustave Vautrey[3]
• 1883: Phèdre in Phèdre by Jean Racine[3]
• 1885: Vivette in L'Arlésienne by Georges Bizet
• 1887: Andromaque by Jean Racine

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Emanuel, Victor Rousseau (1904). "Hadamard, Zélie". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 131–132.