Silvia Monfort (born Simone Marguerite Favre-Bertin; 6 June 1923 â€"
30 March 1991) was a French actress and theatre director. She was the
daughter of the sculptor Charles-Maurice Favre-Bertin [Wikidata] and
wife of Pierre Gruneberg [Wikidata].She was named Knight of the Legion
of Honor in 1973, Officer of Arts and Letters in 1979 and then
Commander of Arts and Letters in 1983. She is buried in Père Lachaise
Cemetery.Monfort was born in the neighborhood of Le Marais, on Rue
Elzévir, a short distance away from Rue de Thorigny, where she would
set up her first theatre much later. Her family had lived in this
Parisian neighborhood for seven generations. She lost her mother very
early and her father put her in a boarding school. She undertook her
secondary studies first at lycée Victor Hugo and then at lycée
Victor Duruy. She obtained her baccalauréat at 14 with special
permission. Her father had intended for her career to be spent at the
Gobelin manufactory but she preferred the theatre and took classes
with Jean Hervé and Jean Valcourt. In 1939, aged 16, she met Maurice
Clavel, who directed the Resistance network in Eure-et-Loir. Under the
pseudonym "Sinclair" (the name of a hill that looms over Sète), she
participated in the liberation of Nogent-le-Rotrou and of Chartres in
1944. She was one of the notables who welcomed General De Gaulle on
the square in front of the Cathedral of Chartres. Once the war ended,
she married Maurice Clavel. She was decorated with the Croix de guerre
by General De Gaulle and with the Bronze Star by General Patton.In
1945, she attracted notice for her acting in a play by Federico
García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba. Her personality drew the
attention of Edwige Feuillère, whose reader she became in L'Aigle Ã
deux têtes by Jean Cocteau. The play was first presented in 1946 at
the Royal Theatre of the Galeries Royales of Saint-Hubert in Brussels,
where she met with great success. After performances in Lyon, the play
had its Parisian premiere at the Théâtre Hébertot, followed by
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