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Charles Fechter

Late in 1844 he won the grand medal of the Académie des Beaux-Arts with a piece of sculpture, and made his debut at the Comédie-Française as Seide in Voltaire's Mahomet and Valère in Molière's Tartuffe.

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The last three years of his life were spent in seclusion with his then wife, Lizzie Price, on a farm which he had bought at Rockland Centre, near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where he died.

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Previously he had appeared for some months in London, in a season of French classical plays given at the St James's Theatre.

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