Editing Jeanne Julia Bartet (section)

===Comédie-Française===
In 1879 Bartet was engaged by the [[Comédie-Française]], where she made her début on 16 February 1880, as Léa in Sardou's ''Daniel Rochat''; later in that year she took over from [[Sarah Bernhardt]] as the Queen in ''[[Ruy Blas]]''. On 24 December 1880 she was appointed as a [[Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française|sociétaire]].<ref name=who/> Over the next forty years she played ninety roles at the Comédie-Française, ranging from comedy to tragedy, gaining the nickname "La Divine".<ref name=bnf/><ref name=who/> In her entry in ''[[Who's Who in the Theatre]]'' she listed more than forty plays that she considered particular successes, including ''[[Adrienne Lecouvreur (play)|Adrienne Lecouvreur]]'', ''[[Andromaque]]'', ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'', ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'', ''[[Bérénice]]'', ''[[Hernani (drama)|Hernani]]'', ''[[Iphigénie]]'', ''[[Le roi s'amuse|Le Roi s'amuse]]'' and ''[[Les Femmes savantes]]''.<ref name=who/>{{refn|The others were ''L'École des Maris'', ''Françillon'', ''La Souris'', ''Denise'', ''Le Gendre de M. Poirier'', ''L'Etrangère'', ''Le Depit amoureux'', ''L'Impromptu de Versailles'', ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'', ''Les Rantzau'', ''La Nuit d'Octobre'', ''Jean Beaudry'', ''Mademoiselle de Belle-isle'', ''Thermidor'', ''Pépa'', ''La Visite de noces'', ''Grisélidis'', ''Par le Glaive'', ''Le Pardon'', ''L'Ami des femmes'', ''La Loi de l'homme'', ''Le Torrent'', ''Le Dédale'', ''L'Autre danger'', ''Le Marquis de Priola'', ''L'Enigme'', ''Le Réveil'', ''Notre jeunesse'', ''Le Duel'', ''Le Foyer'', ''Connais-toi'', ''Le Songe d'un soir d'amour'', ''Apres-moi'' and ''Bagatelle''.<ref name=who/>|group=n}}

''[[Le Figaro]]'' said that Bartet served the Comédie-Française with incomparable nobility, and commented that her "scholarly and understated elegance … her refined grace, her restrained and profound pathos" were "one of the models of the French woman".<ref>[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4109228/f4.image.r=Bartet?rk=21459;2# "Madame Bartet est Morte"], ''Le Figaro'', 28 November 1941, p. 4</ref> Her retirement from the stage in 1920 was international news. In London ''[[The Times]]'' called it a loss that all French people would feel;<ref name=times>"A Loss to the Française", ''The Times'', 21 January 1920, p. 12</ref> ''[[New York Herald|The New York Herald]]'' praised Bartet's generosity in stepping down to make way for younger members of the Comédie-Française, but asked, "Who among the younger actressess is capable of filling Mme. Bartet's place?"<ref>"Mme Bartet Leaves the Comédie-Française", ''The New York Herald'', 25 January 1920, p. 41</ref> On her retirement she was made an Officier of the [[Legion of Honour]].<ref name=times/>

Bartet died at her home in the [[8th arrondissement of Paris|8th arrondissement]] of Paris on 18 November 1941, at the age of 87<ref name=bnf/> and was interred in the [[Cimetière de Passy|Passy Cemetery]].<ref>[https://www.paris.fr/equipements/cimetiere-de-passy-4481 "15e division"], Cimetière de Passy. Retrieved 31 March 2021</ref>