Abstract
The life of the great tragedian of the Comédie-Française, Élisa Félix (1821-1858), who became famous as Rachel, illustrates the acculturation and the social rise of the Jews in Nineteenth Century France. Provided her biographs did not use it against her, Rachel' s Jewishness has rather been held for a minor piece of information. By confronting the legend to the social reality, it appears that both her doubly marginal condition, as a Jewess and as an actress, and the expectation of exemplarity played a major part in the forming of her status as an exception in the midst of French society.
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