François de Bar

de Bar, Ben[edict] (1812?–77), actor and manager. A pioneering theatre figure, he was born in London to parents of French background and settled in New Orleans in 1834. A year later he made his acting debut at that city's St. Charles Theatre as Sir Benjamin Backbite in The School for Scandal. At the time, De Bar was slim and handsome enough (with attractive blue eyes and a round, boyish face) to assume roles such as Mazeppa, albeit from the start he excelled as a comedian. Two years later he joined J. W. Wallack's company at the National in New York. Although he subsequently played several seasons in New York, he preferred what was then known as “the Western circuit”—the cities along or near the Mississippi. He eventually bought out theatre interests in New Orleans and St. Louis and thereafter commuted by riverboat between the two cities, running playhouses and acting. In his later years De Bar grew quite corpulent, so Falstaff became his most celebrated role.

François de Bar (1538 - 25 March 1606) was a French Benedictine monk and scholar.

He was born at Seizencourt, near Saint-Quentin, and having studied at the University of Paris entered the Order of Saint Benedict. He soon became prior of Anchin Abbey, near Pecquencourt, and passed much of his time in the valuable monastery library, studying ecclesiastical history, especially that of Flanders. He also made a catalogue of the manuscripts at Anchin Abbey and annotated many of them. During the French Revolution his manuscripts passed to the library at Douai.

Bar died at Anchin on 25 March 1606.

References

•  "Bar, François de". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. 

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