Juliette Darcourt

In 1878, Darcourt was a young beauty in the company of Coco, at the opening of Jules Brasseur's Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris.^[1] She appeared in operettas, often with the Opéra-Comique, including Le Premier Baiser (1883),^[2] Vie Parisienne (1883),^[3] Le Château de Tire-Larigot (1884), La Nuits aux soufflets (1884),^[4] L'Oiseau bleu (1884),^[5] La Vie mondaine (1885), Le Petit Chaperon rouge (1885), L'amour Mouillé (1887),^[6] Le Puits qui parle (1888), Juanita (1891),^[7] and Le Commandant Laripète (1892).^[8]

In 1899 Darcourt was in the casts of Le Faubourg and Les Amants Legitimes in Paris.^[9][10] She was in Sylvie, ou La Curieuse d'Amour in 1900.^[11] In 1901 she was in the cast of Paul Hervieu's play, The Trail of the Torch, when it debuted at the Théatre du Vaudeville.^[12] In 1903, she was described as "particularly good" in a production of L'Adversaire by Alfred Capus.^[13] She was considered a fashionable woman; reports and photographs of her gowns were published internationally.^[14]

Darcourt married the actor Albert Brasseur (Jules's son), who died in 1932.^[15]

• A photograph of Darcourt with a male castmate, in the Musée Carnavalet.