Pierre Rapenouille, known professionally as Pierre Lafon, was a French dramatic actor born in Lalinde, France on .
Biography At 19 years old,Guy Penaud, Dictionnaire biographique du Périgord, , éditions Fanlac, 1999, Lafon wrote a drama in five actes called La Mort d'Hercule.La Mort d'Hercule sur books.google, consulté le 11 décembre 2011 It was later performed in Bordeaux in 1793.
In 1800, he joined the Comédie-Française where be became known under the name "Lafon des Français."
In his day, Pierre Lafon was among Paris's best respected dramatic actors. « Le beau Lafon » as he was known, quickly eclipsed the great Talma. Lafon's physical beauty and talent as an actor made him a favorite of women, notably Pauline Bonaparte.
Lafon made his final stage appearance in 1839, after which he retired to his daughter's home in Bordeaux. He died on .Death certificate of Pierre Lafon at Bordeaux, n° 400, vue 58/167. The certificate is dated 11 May 1846 and notes that Lafon "died at 10am yesterday morning."
Career at the Comédie-Française Lafon joined in 1800 and was named a sociétaires of the Comédie-Française that same year. He left the theater in 1830.Base documentaire La Grange on the site of the Comédie-Française.
His roles included:
1800: Orestes in Andromaque by Jean Racine, Comédie-Française 1800: Nero in Britannicus by Jean Racine, Comédie-Française 1800: Achilles in Iphigénie by Jean Racine, Comédie-Française 1801: Alhamar in Alhamar by François-Joseph Depuntis, Comédie-Française 1801: Pharnace in Mithridate by Jean Racine, Comédie-Française 1802: Clodoër in Isule et Orovèse by Népomucène Lemercier, Comédie-Française 1802: Don Léon in Le Roi et le laboureur by Antoine-Vincent Arnault, Comédie-Française 1803: Le Tasse in Le Tasse by A. M. Cecile, Comédie-Française 1803: Suleiman in Les Trois Sultanes ou Soliman II by Charles-Simon Favart, Comédie-Française 1803: Thurson in Siri-Brahé ou les Curieuses by Henry Joseph Thurind de Ryss, Comédie-Française 1804: Harpage in Cyrus by Marie-Joseph Chénier, Comédie-Française 1805: Aman in Esther by Jean Racine 1805: Philip IV of France in Les Templiers by François Just Marie Raynouard : 1806: Abner in Athalie by Jean Racine 1806: d'Épernon in La Mort de Henri IV, roi de France by Gabriel-Marie Legouvé 1806: Alceste in Le Misanthrope by Molière 1806: Nero in Octavie by Jean-Marie Siouriguères de Saint-Marc 1807: Caurellée La Mort de Du Guesclin by Hyacinthe Dorvo 1807: Nicomède in Nicomède by Pierre Corneille 1807: Brueys in Brueys et Palaprat by Charles-Guillaume Étienne 1807: the prince in Le Paravent by Eugène de Planard 1807: Antiochus in Rodogune by Pierre Corneille 1808: Artaxerce in Artaxerce by Étienne-Joseph-Bernard Delrieu 1809: Pâris in Hector by Jean-Charles-Julien Luce de Lancival 1809: Licinius in Vitellie by A. de Selve
1810: Thierry in Brunehaut ou les Successeurs de Clovis by Étienne Aignan 1811: Nicomède in Annibal by A. J. Denormandie 1814: Henri de Bourbon, roi de Navarre in Les États de Blois ou La Mort du duc de Guise by François Just Marie Raynouard 1815: Démétrius in Démétrius by Étienne-Joseph-Bernard Delrieu 1816: Charlemagne in Charlemagne by Népomucène Lemercier 1819: Pyrrhus in Hécube et Polyxène by Pierre-François-Xavier Bourguignon d'Herbigny 1819: Talbot in Jeanne d'Arc à Rouen by Charles-Joseph Robillard d'Avrigny 1819: Louis IX in Louis IX by Jacques-François Ancelot 1820: the Regent in Jean de Bourgogne by Guilleau de Formont 1823: Burrhus in Britannicus by Jean Racine 1823: Don Pèdre in Pierre de Portugal by Lucien Arnault 1824: Shore in Richard III et Jeanne Shore by Népomucène Lemercier 1824: Eudore in Eudore et Cymodocée by Gary 1825: David in La Clémence de David by Victor Draparnaud 1825: Tiberius in Bélisaire by Étienne de Jouy 1825: Sigismund in Sigismond de Bourgogne by Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet 1825: Leroi in Le Béarnais by Ramond de la Croisette, Fulgence de Bury, and Paul Ledoux 1825: Démarate in Léonidas by Michel Pichat 1826: Clisson in Charles VI by Alexandre-Jean-Joseph de La Ville de Mirmont 1826: Odon in Le Siège de Paris by Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt 1826: Maillard in Marcel by Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont 1827: Joad in Athalie by Jean Racine 1827: Julien in Julien dans les Gaules by Étienne de Jouy 1827: Icilius in Virginie by Alexandre Guiraud 1829: the Duke of Nottingham in Élisabeth d'Angleterre by Jacques-François Ancelot
References
External links Lafon sur Les Archives du spectacle