Background
Francois Jules Edmond Got was born on the 1st of October 1822 at Lignerolles.
Francois Jules Edmond Got was born on the 1st of October 1822 at Lignerolles.
He entered the Conservatoire in 1841, winning the second prize for comedy that year and the first in 1842.
After a year of military service he made his debut at the Comedie Franfaise on the 17th of July 1844, as Alexis in Les Heritiers and Mascarelles in Les Precieuses ridicules. He was immediately admitted pensionnaire, and became societaire in 1850. By special permission of the emperor in 1866 he played at the Odeon in Emile Augier's Contagion. His golden jubilee at the Theatre Franfais was celebrated in 1894, and he made his final appearance the year after. He wrote the libretto of the opera Franqois Villon (1857) and also gf L'Esclave (1874).