Editing Jeanne Julia Bartet

{{short description|French actress (1854-1941)}}
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| birth_place        = Paris
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1941|11|18|1854|10|28|df=y}}
| nationality        = French 
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'''Julia Bartet''' was the stage name of  '''Jeanne-Julie Regnault''' (28 October 1854 – 18 November 1941),  a French actress. After training at the  [[Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique|Paris Conservatoire]] she began her professional career in 1872, and from 1880 to her retirement in 1920 she was a leading member of the [[Comédie-Française]]. Her range was wide, and she appeared in classic plays and modern drama, in comedy and tragedy.

==Life and career==
===Early years===
Bartet was born Jeanne-Julie Regnault on 20 October 1854 in the [[1st arrondissement of Paris|1st arrondissement]] of Paris.<ref name=bnf>[https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13956189g "Notice de personne"], Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 31 March 2021</ref>
She studied at the [[Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique|Paris Conservatoire]] under the prominent actor and teacher [[François-Joseph Regnier]].<ref name=who>Parker, p. 903</ref> She won the conservatoire's second prize for comedy in 1872 and made her first professional stage appearance in October of that year, adopting the stage name Bartet to avoid confusion with the established star actress [[Alice Regnault]].<ref>[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4622771w/f2.item.r=Jeanne%20Julia%20Bartet.zoom "Homonymie"], ''L'Oeuvre'', 23 November 1941, p. 2</ref> Her first role was Vivette in the first production of  [[Alphonse Daudet|Daudet 's]] ''[[L'Arlésienne (short story)|L'Arlesienne]]'' at the [[Théâtre du Vaudeville]], Paris.<ref name=who/>

During the 1870s her other roles included Marguerite in [[Victorien Sardou|Sardou's]] ''Les Ganaches'' (1874); Manon in ''[[Manon Lescaut]]'' (1875); Fanny Merson in [[Émile Augier]]'s  ''Madame Caverlet'' (1876); Comtesse Zicka in ''[[Diplomacy (play)|Dora]]'' (1877) and leading parts in ''Les Bourgeois de Pont-Arcy'' (1878); ''Montjoye'' (1879) and ''Les Tapageurs'' (1879).<ref name=who/>
Her [https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/sites/default/files/styles/pm_notice/public/atoms/images/CAR/35302-14.jpg?itok=R-dpiGlF portrait] was painted by [[Aimé Morot]] in 1881 and is at the [[Musée Carnavalet]] in Paris.

===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>

==Notes, references and sources==
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===Sources===
* {{cite book | editor-last= Parker | editor-first= John | year=1922 | title= Who's Who in the Theatre | location=London |edition=fourth| publisher=Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons | oclc=473894893}}
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