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340:(1896), in which she played Juliette Diamant. Illness obliged her to leave the cast for a while during the run, but she recovered so well that on her return she managed the unusual feat of playing in two different West End productions at the same time. While playing Juliette Diamant at Daly's she also played Gilberte Picard, a French singer, in the farce
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was the stage name of
Juliette-Hortense Lesne (30 July 1869 – 26 July 1900), a French singer and actress in operetta and musicals, who made most of her short career in London, after early success in Paris and Brussels.
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and Lina Pacary, and recommended
Nesville for the part. Her performance won praise. She requested and was given permission to leave the Conservatoire to create the title role in
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during the rest of the decade, interspersed with two non-musical plays for other managements. She died in Paris after a short illness while appearing there in 1900, aged thirty.
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dismissed the play but judged
Nesville – "a really excellent actress" – its only redeeming feature. In the same year Nesville took over the role of Madame Amélie in
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thought her the best thing about the production. Back in London in
September she created her last West End role, a French maid, in a new farce,
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was still running in London when she returned, and she rejoined the cast. She spent much of 1898 in a succession of engagements at the
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Nesville had a succession of roles in London productions of the 1890s. In 1892 and into 1893 she starred in the
English adaptation of
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American trip took place in 1897. After a two-week try-out at the Garrick, Edwardes sent a company to New York to play
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Valentine, A Henriques. "Miss Juliette Nesville at Home",
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