Francois Joseph Talma was a French actor. He was born in 1763 at Paris and died in 1826. He made his debut in 1787 at the Comedie Francaise and two years later at the same venue created a furore in Chenier's Charles IX. Founding a new theatre, the Theatre de la Republique, he achieved a series of successes which earned him the reputation of the greatest tragedian of his time. Napoleon was his friend and patron, and in 1808 took him to Erfurt, where he acted La Mort de Cesar before an audience of royalty, and to Dresden in 1813. Research Francois Talma
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