Pierre-François Beauvallet

Pierre-François Beauvallet (13 October 1801 – 21 December 1873) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright.

Pierre-François Beauvallet
Born	13 October 1801 Pithiviers
Died	21 December 1873(1873-12-21) (aged 72)
Occupation(s)	Stage actor, playwright

Biography

Beauvallet first made his reputation as a melodrama actor, then became an ordinary tragedian of the Comédie-Française; He tried with less success to be a playwright. His son was the writer and dramatist Léon Beauvallet.

He was a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1839 to 1872.

Beauvallet in Les Burgraves (Hiob's role) in 1843.

Theatre

Career at the Comédie-Française

Entrance in 1830

Appointed 251st sociétaire in 1832

Departure in 1861

Bibliography

• Pierre Larousse, « Léon Beauvallet », Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, tome 2, Paris, 1867, p. 452, at Gallica

External links

• Base documentaire La Grange sur le site de la Comédie-Française