Download or read book Idols of the French Stage, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by H. Sutherland Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Idols of the French Stage, Vol. 2 of 2 Madeleine Guimard, a dancer, who excited as much admiration, and scattered as many fortunes as any woman who ever appeared on the stage, was ugly, thin, of sallow complexion, and marked with the smaUpox. Lord Mount-Edgecumbe, in his Reminiscences, tells us that when, at an advanced age, she appeared for the second time at the King's (now Her Majesty's) Theatre, she still possessed "grace and gentility," adding that she had never been distinguished by anything more substantial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.