Frédérick Lemaître

Summary

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Frédérick Lemaître through Les Enfants du paradis, where the real actor becomes a character1. He presents him as a prestigious actor with a gift of the gab that he contrasts with the art of mime. He notes that Pierre Brasseur plays the role in the film and recalls that Nerval met Lemaître. What he most often retains is one specific scene: the one where Lemaître mocks authors who demand "emotion." Between 2019 and 2021, he returns to this line several times, in different contexts: an interview, the series on the benefits and harms of amnesia2, and then the Musicosophie session devoted to Nietzsche contra Wagner3. In a session on Mozart, he compares the character to Harlequin4. The passages are brief. Lemaître serves as an occasional reference, linked to the theatre and to the mockery of the demand for emotion, rather than as the subject of an extended analysis.

1. 1#1 Benefits and harms of amnesia…8 Oct 2020 · 1:12:15
2. 2#8 Benefits and harms of amnesia…10 Dec 2020 · 1:00:36
3. 3#12 Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 2:00:42
4. 4#14 Mozart once more7 Feb 2021 · 5:46

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.