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- Madeleine Milhaud was born on March 22, 1902 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936), Courrier Sud (1937) and Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928). She was married to Darius Milhaud. She died on January 17, 2008 in Paris, France.
- SpouseDarius Milhaud(1925 - June 22, 1974) (his death, 1 child)
- Married French composer Darius Milhaud, her cousin. Their son Daniel, born in 1930, became a painter.
- Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris to Michel and Maria Milhaud. Her father was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels.
- She wrote the libretti for her husband's operas Médée, Bolivar, and La mère coupable.
- Neither her Belgian mother nor her lawyer father was particularly musical. Born in Paris, she first experienced the power of music at 15 through hearing Sarah Bernhardt, whose voice had "very characteristic and extremely songlike inflections".
- She also read poetry on the radio, usually being free to make her own choice of poets. Her understanding of music, which she had also studied, enabled her to perform speaking parts in musical works, such as Joan of Arc in Arthur Honegger's oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, and she also played Joan in different plays, mainly for the radio.
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