Georgette Leblanc, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

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Georgette Leblanc, a French soprano and actress active in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was born in 1869 in Saint-Lô, France, associated with the works of Jules Massenet, had a relationship with the writer Maurice Maeterlinck, and had a career as an actress, both on stage and in silent films. She retired from the stage in 1913 and died in 1941.