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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 1994
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Jean Daste, actor, theatre director: born Paris 18 September
1904; married 1928 Marie-Helene Copeau (died 1994; one daughter);
died St Etienne 16 October 1994.
JEAN DASTE was a child of the century, whose long career covered
all the stages in the birth, rise and decline of the French avant-
garde populist theatre.
In the carefree decade before the First World War, Jean Daste's
father hired out hansom cabs and his cabmen often received as tips
from artists and theatre people tickets for free seats to the Paris
shows. He would take his wife to see the great actors and actresses
of the day, and young Jean could soon imitate Mounet-Sully, Andre
Antoine and Sarah Bernhardt. His mother encouraged ...