Alexandre Bultos (18 June 1749,

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actor and theatre director from the

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in the

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Life

The seventh child of Pierre-François Bultos and his wife Marie-Josèphe Lambert, wine merchants and hoteliers, Alexandre made his stage debut in December 1761 aged 12, in ''La Servante maîtresse'' by Pierre Baurans, after the work by

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, beside his close contemporary

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(like him, a student of Ignaz Vitzthumb, music-master of the

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). When this play was reprised two months later, François-Antoine de Chevrier wrote: From 1767 to 1770 he was part of the

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troupe, acted at

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in 1770, and then acted at

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in Charles Bernardy's troupe, before finally getting to

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under his own steam. Taken on at Brussels in 1772 as an ensemble member then as Laruette and his comic leads from 1773, he divided his duties with

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, which sometimes led to tension between Dazincourt and Bultos. Dazincourt left Brussels for Paris in 1776, leaving Bultos alone to fill the lead roles. In 1777 Bultos and his father obtained permission to open a

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in the Parc de Bruxelles and the same year Alexandre became co-director of the Théâtre de la Monnaie alongside Louis-Jean Pin. Five years later, he made his brother Herman (1752-1801) his co-director. Around 1785 he tried to make a debut at the

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but was dissuaded by his contemporaries.

References

* Henri Liebrecht: ''Histoire du Theatre Français''. Slatkine Reprints. Genève 1977. p. 353-355. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bultos 1749 births 1787 deaths 18th-century male actors from the Holy Roman Empire Directors of La Monnaie Actors from the Austrian Netherlands