Between the years 1871–1874, Jeanne Samary attended the Paris drama school and passed with distinction. In 1874, she became a member of the Comédie-Française and debuted on 24 August 1874 as Dorine in Tartuffe by Molière. Jeanne Samary excelled in numerous roles in the comedies, but also in parts of Édouard Pailleron (L'Étincelle; La Monde ou l'on s'ennuie).[1]
Renoir painted Samary around a dozen times between the years 1877–1881;[1]Louise Abbéma painted her twice.
In 1880,[2] she married Paul Lagarde, with whom she had three children.[1] Shortly before her death she wrote a children's book titled Les gourmandises de Charlotte for their children. She died in 1890 of typhoid fever,[1] and was buried in the Passy Cemetery.
Portrait of Jeanne Samary, by Louise Abbéma (ca. 1880)
^https://archives.paris.fr/s/4/etat-civil-actes/?1880, Mariages, 09, V4E 3582, 9 November 1880, no. 1006, Lagarde et Samary, the ceremony took place Wednesday, 10 November at the Église de la Trinité, Paris, see Jules Prével, "Courrier des Théatres," Le Figaro, 8 November 1880, p. 2.
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