Juliette Simon-Girard

[2] During the run of Les cloches de Corneville she met and married the well-known tenor Simon-Max, thereafter becoming Mme Simon-Girard.

[1] At the age of 19, she created the title role in Offenbach’s Madame Favart; then La fille du tambour-major in 1879 becoming one of Paris’s most popular performers, prominent on the city's stages for 30 years.

On return to the Folies-Dramatiques she replaced Ugalde in Les petits mousquetaires and then created the title role in La fauvette du temple (17 November 1885).

She met her second husband Félix Huguenet while performing in L’enlèvement de la Toledad in 1894, and from then on took on more comedy acting parts.

In November 1899 she took the title role at the Théâtre des Variétés in a major and successful revival of La belle Hélène, which ran for over five hundred performances.