Amélie Diéterle was a French actress and opera singer. She was one
of the popular actresses of the Belle Époque until the beginning of
the Années Folles. Amélie Diéterle inspired the poets Léon Dierx
and Stéphane Mallarmé and the painters Auguste Renoir, Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec and Alfred Philippe Roll.Amélie Diéterle was born
in Strasbourg on 20 February 1871. She was the daughter of a
maidservant from Munich and a young French officer, Captain Louis
Laurent who was garrisoned nearby in 1870.Having won first prize of
song and solfège at the Conservatory of Dijon, she went to Paris in
1889 where she was chosen from 40 competitors to enter the Concerts
Colonne. She was a pupil of Alice Ducasse who had been a singer of the
Opéra-Comique. She was spotted in 1891 by the conductor of the
Théâtre des Variétés and presented to the director Eugène
Bertrand who hired her. This began a career of nearly 35 years in the
troupe of the Variety Theatre. She became a permanent actress who had
her own rooms and reserved box. AmÃ(c)lie DiÃ(c)terle Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter