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Barrault

American  
[ba-roh] / baˈroʊ /

noun

  1. Jean-Louis 1910–1994, French actor and director.


Barrault British  
/ baro /

noun

  1. Jean-Louis (ʒɑ̃lwi). 1910–94, French actor and director, noted particularly as a mime

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He continued his education in Paris, where he studied with the actor Jean-Louis Barrault and the mime Etienne Decroux.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2022

The stillness, shot through with dancers’ gestures of intimate dismay, recalls the thoughtful, mesmerizing Jean-Louis Barrault, as the mime in Marcel Carné’s “Les Enfants du Paradis.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2016

Barrault remembered inviting him to meet her on an island in the south of France, where she was staying.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2015

In Paris, and later back in New York, she studied theater, movement and visual art with eminences including the stage director Erwin Piscator, the actor and mime Jean-Louis Barrault and the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann.

From New York Times • May 13, 2015

The Maison Barrault in the Logis Barrault, built by a former mayor of the city, one time Chancellor of Brittany, was the scene of the magnificent entertainment offered C�sar Borgia in 1497.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche