1. Charles Albert Fechter was an Anglo-French actor.
12 Facts About Charles Fechter
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The tour was a failure, and the company broke up; Charles Fechter returned home and resumed the study of sculpture.
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Charles Fechter acquitted himself with credit; but, tired of the small parts he found himself condemned to play, returned again to his sculptor's studio in 1846.
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For nearly two years Charles Fechter was manager of the Odeon, where he produced Tartuffe and other classical plays.
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Charles Fechter played in the United States between 1870 and 1876 in most of the parts in which he had won his chief triumphs in Britain.
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Charles Fechter leased the Globe Theatre at 730 Broadway in September 1870.
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Charles Fechter then had the same experiences at the old French theatre, renamed the Lyceum Theatre that year, and in Boston.
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Charles Fechter then went into a brief partnership with William Stuart at the newly completed New Park Theatre in April 1874.
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Charles Fechter acted in his own Love's Penance, an adaptation of Le medecin des enfants by le Comte d'Avrigny.
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The play flopped, and Charles Fechter retired to a farm which he had bought in the little village of Richland Centre, Bucks County, near Quakertown.
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Charles Fechter was interred at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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Charles Fechter married, 29 November 1847, Mlle Charlotte Eleonore Rabut, a pensionnaire of the Comedie Francaise, Paris, by whom he had a son, Paul, and a daughter, Marie, who became an operatic singer.