Pierre-Chéri Lafont

[1][2][3] Abandoning his profession as assistant ship's doctor in the navy, he went to Paris to study singing and acting.

[1] He had some experience at a small theater, and was preparing to appear at the Opéra Comique when the director of the Vaudeville offered him an engagement.

Here he made his debut in 1821 in La Somnambule,[a] and his good looks and excellent voice soon brought him into public favor.

[1] After several years at the Nouveautés and the Vaudeville, on the burning of the latter in 1838 he went to England, and married, at Gretna Green, Jenny Colon [fr], from whom he was soon divorced.

[1] Another engagement at the Vaudeville followed, and one at the Gaîté, and he ended his "brilliant career"[1] at the Gymnase in the part of the noble father in such plays as Les Vieux Garçons and Nos bons villageois.