Léonard Tousez
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Léonard Tousez | |
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| Born | 1788 |
| Died | 1826 (aged 37–38) Charenton, France |
Léonard Décade Tousez (French pronunciation: [leɔnaʁ dekaːd tusɛ]; 1788–1826) was a French actor and playwright of the 19th century.
Tousez was born in Paris. An actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1816-1826), he played the handsome young men in Les Bolivars et les Morillos ou Les amours de Belleville (1819) by Armand d'Artois and Gabriel de Lurieu as well as, inter alia, in Le témoin ou La Porte-Maillot (1820) by Eugène Scribe, Mélesville and Xavier Boniface.
In 1818, he married Charlotte Zoë Régnier de la Brière, an actress and François-Joseph Regnier's mother.
He took part in the composition of several plays of the boulevard theatre genre which were presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique and the Théâtre du Vaudeville.
He lost reason while performing in 1826 and died in the asylum at Charenton.[1]
