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Born Delphine Eléonore Fix into a Jewish family in the hamlet of Tellancourt (Moselle) on 10 September 1831, her father was a tiler. She was brought to Paris by her mother in 1847 and placed in the Conservatoire, where she studied under Provost. She made her début at the Comédie Française on 9 September 1849 as Abigail in Verre d’eau. She was employed there as the jeune première and contributed to the success of numerous productions. On 15 July 1854 she was named a sociétaire.
She married Casimir Salvador, a director of the Crédit mobilier, the possessor of a vast personal fortune, but although her husband – in the words of one contemporary biographer – recognized the incontestable virtue of Mlle. Fix, he could not suffer the theatre, which his wife renounced on 1 September 1863. Less than a year later, she died in childbirth on 11 June 1864 ‘au milieu de toutes les jouissances que peut donner une immense fortune.’ Neither her marriage nor her funeral was attended by her fellow actors of the Comédie Française, whom her husband did not deem worth inviting. |
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condition: Excellent, althought the tonal range could be stronger. price: not for sale code: ad556 |
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Disdéri Camille Silvy post-mortem
© Paul Frecker London 2003