| 词汇 | rachel |
| 词源 | rachel. Discovered singing for pennies in the streets by the famous voice teacher Alexandre Choron, Élisa Félix, the daugh- ter of poor Parisian peddlers, was trained for the stage and made her debut at the Comédie Française just before her 17th birthday. Élisa took the stage name Rachel, and her genius as a tragic actress, especially in the plays of Racine and Corneille, was acclaimed throughout Europe. “Rachel the immortal” ranks second only to Sarah Bernhardt among French actresses. While at the height of her fame in such roles as Phèdre in Rac- ine’s play of that name, the fawn-colored Rachel face powder, sometimes called rachel for short, was named in her honor by a Parisian cosmetic specialist. On a visit to America Rachel con- tracted tuberculosis, which led to her death three years later, in 1858. She was only 38, her tragic last illness and death the theme of a poem by Matthew Arnold. |
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