Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française

The sociétaires of the Comédie-Française are chosen from among the pensionnaires who have been in the company a year or more.

They are decided upon in the course of a general assembly of the company's administrative committee, made up of 6 existing sociétaires, the senior sociétaire, and the general administrator. A pensionnaire is thus named a societaire by a decree of the Ministry of Culture, from names put forward by the general administrator of the Comédie-Française. On becoming a sociétaire, an actor automatically becomes a member of the Société des Comédiens-Français and receives a share of the profits as well as receiving a number of shares in the société to which he or she is contractually linked.

After his or her retirement, a sociétaire can continue to act, becoming an honorary sociétaire. The senior member of the Comédie-Française is not the oldest sociétaire, but the sociétaire who has been with the company longest (since their entering it as a pensionnaire).

## Some Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française

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### 17th century

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* Michel Baron (1680)
* Rosimond (1680)
* Armande Béjart (1680)
* Mademoiselle de Brie (1680)
* Champmeslé (1680)
* Marie Champmeslé (1680)
* Mademoiselle Du Croisy (1680)
* Charles Varlet de La Grange (1680)
* Mademoiselle La Grange (1680)
* Raymond Poisson, known as Belleroche (1680)
* Brécourt (1682)
* Dancourt (1685)
* Jean Quinault (1695)
* Charlotte Desmares (1699)

### 18th century

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* Quinault-Dufresne (1712)
* Adrienne Lecouvreur (1717)
* Jeanne Gaussin (1731)
* Marie Dumesnil (1738)
* Mademoiselle Clairon (1743)
* Marie Brillant (1750)
* Lekain (1751)
* Mademoiselle Hus (1753)
* Préville (1753)
* Dalainville (1758)
* François Molé (1761)
* Jacques Marie Boutet (1772)
* Dugazon (1772)
* Monvel (1772)
* Dazincourt (1778)

* Amélie-Julie Candeille (1785)
* Mademoiselle Lange (1788)
* Talma (1789)
* Madame Desgarcins (1789)
* Mademoiselle Fleury (1791)
* Grandmesnil (1792)
* Mademoiselle Mars (1799)

### 19th century

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* Mademoiselle George (1804)
* Mademoiselle Anaïs (1832)
* Regnier (1835)
* Rachel (1842)
* Clémentine Jouassain (1863)
* Coquelin aîné (1864)
* Jeanne Samary (1874)
* Mounet-Sully (1874)
* Sarah Bernhardt (1875)
* Jules Truffier (1888)
* Marguerite Moreno (1890)
* Jeanne Ludwig (1893)
* Marthe Brandès (1896)
* Raphaël Duflos (1896)

### 20th century

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* Cécile Sorel (1904)
* Berthe Cerny (1909)
* Gabrielle Colonna-Romano (1913)
* Denis d'Inès (1920)
* Mary Marquet (1923)
* Pierre Fresnay (1924)
* Gabrielle Robinne (1924)
* Madeleine Renaud (1928)
* Marie Bell (1928)
* Fernand Ledoux (1931)
* Pierre Dux (1935)
* Gisèle Casadesus (1938)
* Julien Bertheau (1942)
* Louis Seigner (1943)
* Jean-Louis Barrault (1943)
* Raimu (1944)
* Jacques Charon (1947)
* Micheline Boudet (1950)
* Jean Davy (1950)
* Robert Hirsch (1952)
* Jean Piat (1953)
* Paul Meurisse (1956)
* Jean Yonnel (1956)
* Denise Gence (1958)
* Georges Descrières (1958)
* Jacques Sereys (1959)
* Jacques Toja
* Jean-Paul Roussillon (1960)
* François Chaumette (1960)
* Bernard Dhéran (1961)
* Catherine Samie (1962)
* Michel Etcheverry (1964)
* Renée Faure (1965)
* Michel Aumont (1965)
* René Camoin (1966)
* Michel Duchaussoy (1967)
* Françoise Seigner (1968)
* Paule Noëlle (1969)
* Isabelle Adjani (1972)
* Jean-Luc Boutté (1975)
* Catherine Hiegel (1976)
* Claude Giraud (1976)
* Francis Huster (1977)
* Patrice Kerbrat (1977)
* Jean Le Poulain (1981)
* Martine Chevallier (1988)
* Michel Favory (1988)
* Catherine Sauval (1989)
* Jean-Luc Bideau (1991)
* Philippe Torreton (1994)
* Andrzej Seweryn (1995)
* Michel Robin (1996)
* Éric Ruf (1998)
* Éric Génovèse (1998)
* Bruno Raffaeli (1998)
* Denis Podalydès (2000)
* Coraly Zahonero (2000)
* Florence Viala (2000)

### 21st century

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* Alexandre Pavloff (2002)
* Françoise Gillard (2002)
* Céline Samie (2004)
* Clotilde de Bayser (2004)
* Jérôme Pouly (2004)
* Laurent Stocker (2004)
* Pierre Vial (2005)
* Guillaume Gallienne (2005)
* Laurent Natrella (2007)
* Michel Vuillermoz (2007)
* Elsa Lepoivre (2007)
* Christian Gonon (2009)
* Julie Sicard (2009)
* Loïc Corbery (2010)
* Léonie Simaga (2010)
* Serge Bagdassarian (2011)
* Hervé Pierre (2011)
* Bakary Sangaré (2013)
* Pierre Louis-Calixte (2013)
* Christian Hecq (2013)
* Nicolas Lormeau (2014)
* Gilles David (2014)
* Stéphane Varupenne (2015)
* Suliane Brahim (2016)
* Adeline d'Hermy (2016)
* Georgia Scalliet (2017)
* Jérémy Lopez (2017)
* Clément Hervieu-Léger (2018)
* Benjamin Lavernhe (2019)
* Sébastien Pouderoux (2019)
* Didier Sandre (2020)
* Christophe Montenez (2020)

## See also

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* Administrators of the Comédie-Française

## External links

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* List of all the sociétaires on the Comédie-Française site
* Comédie-française (1658-1900): Liste alphabétique des sociétaires at Google Books