[SECOND EMPIRE COURTESY] THÉRÈSA, née Eugènie Emma VALLADON - Lot 473

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[SECOND EMPIRE COURTESY] THÉRÈSA, née Eugènie Emma VALLADON - Lot 473
[SECOND EMPIRE COURTESY] THÉRÈSA, née Eugènie Emma VALLADON (1837-1913), famous cabaret singer. Vintage print on albumen paper, business card size, 10.5 x 6 cm. By FRANCK. She was responsible for the birth of the entertainment industry. "Theresa possesses, all originality aside, the most precious qualities: her voice is frank, rustic, and of perfect emission; her pronunciation is a marvel of clearness and the communicative good mood of the artist is incomparable [...]." The Trombinoscope. "Berger Antoinette This April 4, 1873 La Nitou "Since the carnival has passed, they have ceased to appear at the cellar of the Café Frontin, boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, where Theresa, Blanche d'Antigny and other well-known tribunes gather after the show, but it has never been noticed that La Nitou seeks to train women. She is very jealous and does not allow Gabrielle to leave her. It is assured that her rent is paid, she receives among others by M. Devienne a thousand francs a month. La Nitou has been ill for some time and does not go out." RBB, sheet 143. "From her return to Paris date her successes; she earns a hundred francs a day; she is now said to be very thrifty, and her expenses are said to be chiefly for a woman named Josephine, a former lorette, who has become her tribune. They live together; it is Josephine who runs the house and disposes of everything. They occupy an apartment with an annual rent of one thousand seven hundred and fifty francs. Theresa has nevertheless kept up her relations with the doctor she knew at the Porte Saint-Martin, and every ten days he gives her one hundred francs." RBB, sheet 325.
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