DEJAZET, tt. NE VIRG} NIE (1707-1s7.11. .\ celebrated Fmnch actress. She was horn in Paris, ..\ugust. 30, 1797 (som• ac count: say 170s). l'rotn the time she was five yeas 1)111, she began playing children's Wit 11 marvelous precocity of intelligenet• at till she was over seventy, her career upon the stage was an almost. uninterrupted ,Ite.
.kfter in several Parisian the she %vent to I von: and 11.trdeaux. ahere Woll great popularity in soubrette Returning to Paris I 1-t20), she placed suceessively at the (1yninase, the Nourealit,.., and Royal, where she made some of her greatest hits in young m•n', parts. These. called r.;/(.c were distinetive that they, together a ith her quick-witted souhr.tte came to be 1.110N1 a as at class by tin in pi Famous especially WI'D• in ilf I ill. !dux I.'.rn lour d. la rt.: I.. Ills I Soph .1•; i n : :11111 numeron: others. .\ fter Is15 she play..1 for at time at the and mode tour. abroad. In 1`4511, with her son EtigAne. she undertook the management of the Eolies.Nonvelles, that known as the re Ilcre she brought out several of Sardon'• earlier piece:• among them Ilun Garai and ./..s larla She
retired from the stage in hut appeared again 0%1.11 itliin at tsar' of her death. which recurred December 1. 1'175. Countless storks re loll of lit:r brilliant wit and personal charm. I. itsult : I iral it 11,' bi-, t. 1797 I t+7.7 ( Paris. 1.i•orole, t t : u lade biographigto- Paris• 1,4(10) : ;111.1 Alirecourt."1M ill L., CM pi Pa ris. 1 sri ) .
DEJEAN. .1( 711:iN', .1f tx FRANrots AlMt, I 17 10- I I 1. Pouch general and state-man, born at Castelnamlary_ ]le fought with distiletion in the Wars .•f the Revolution, rising stieee•siv.ly to the rank of brigadier• gen. ral and gem ral of ills lie was )tin' i•ter of 'War from Is'n.2 to and, after the first Rest. ration. was appointed governor of the Polytechnic Upon the return of Icon front Elba. he rendered valuable services until after the battle of lVaterloo. Ile was also for a time grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor.