Lia Félix

Adélaïde "Lia" Félix (Saumur, 6 July 1830 – Paris, 15 January 1908) was a French actress.

Her father, Jacob Jacques Félix, was a peddler, and her mother, Esther Thérèse Hayer, was a Bohemian dealer in second-hand clothes.

[1] She had hardly been given any trial when, by chance, she was called on to create the leading woman's part in Lamartine's Toussaint Louverture at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 6 April 1848.

The play did not make a hit, but the young actress was favorably noticed, and several important parts were immediately entrusted to her.

When she reappeared at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in the title role of Jules Barbier's Jeanne d'Arc she had an enormous success.