Solange Schwarz

Her aunt Jeanne Schwarz was a star dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet and her sisters Nelly, Janine and Christiane also danced there.

[2] Schwarz joined the Opera Ballet in 1930 but left for the Opéra Comique in 1937 where she immediately became an étoile, performing in Le Lac des cygnes, La Rosière du village, Reflets and Marcel Delannoy's La Pantoufle de vair.

[2] She returned to the Paris Opera in 1937 where in 1940 she became the first female dancer to be officially named an étoile after partnering Serge Lifar in his Entre deux rondes.

[2] After the end of World War II, together with Lifar she left the Opera to perform with the Ballets des Champs-Élysées, the Opéra-Comique (1949–51) and the companies founded by the Marquis de Cuevas.

One of her most successful roles was Swanhilda in Coppélia, which she performed for the last time at the Paris Opera the night of her retirement from the stage in 1957.