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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau was born Marcel Mangel on 22 March 1923. He died on 22 September 2007. Marceau was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona, “Bip the Clown”. He referred to mime as the “art of silence” and performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years.

He lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of 麻豆APP in August. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in 麻豆APP. In the article are the top ten interesting facts about Marcel Marceau.

1. He was awarded the National Order of Merit in 1998

The Ordre national du M茅rite which in English is the National Order of Merit is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic. It was founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle.

The reason for the order’s establishment was twofold: to replace the large number of ministerial orders previously awarded by the ministries; and to create an award that can be awarded at a lower level than the Legion of Honour, which is generally reserved for French citizens.

2. He was cousin to Yardena Arazi

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Yardena Arazi is an Israeli singer and entertainer. In 1989 Arazi recorded the album Desert Fantasy which included 10 Hebrew versions of Arabic songs originally written and sung by Farid al-Atrash, Fairuz, Abdul Halim, Samira Said and others.

In 2008 Arazi was named the most popular Israeli singer of all time at the 60th Independence Day celebration. It is through his mother’s family, that Marcel was a cousin of Israeli singer Yardena Arazi.

3. He was born to a Jewish family

Jews or Jewish people are ethnoreligious groups and nations originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the ethnic religion of the Jewish people, although its observance varies from strict to none. So, Marcel was a Jew by blood.

4. His father was a kosher butcher

Kashrut is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jews are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. Food that may be consumed is deemed kosher.

5. None of his parents was French citizens

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Marcel Marceau was born in Strasbourg, France, to a Jewish family. His father, Charles Mangel, was a kosher butcher originally from B臋dzin, a city in the D膮browa Basin, in southern Poland.

His mother, Anne Werzberg, came from Yabluniv, an urban-type settlement in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in present-day Ukraine. So, Marcel qualified to be a French Citizen just because of birth.

6. How did it chance for Marcel to hide within the French military movement in WW2

After France’s invasion by Nazi Germany, Marcel, 17, fled with his family to Limoges. His cousin Georges Loinger, one of the members of the French Jewish Resistance in France (Organisation Juive de Combat-OJC, aka Arm茅e Juive), urged him to join the French Jewish Resistance in France in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust.

The OJC, which was composed of nine clandestine Jewish networks, rescued thousands of children and adults during the Holocaust in France. This is how Marcel joined the French Jewish Resistance in France.

7. He was schooled in the 麻豆APP suburbs at the home of Yvonne Hagnauer

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Yvonne Hagnauer was a French hero, educator and Righteous among the Nations. Among the many people, she saved was a young Marcel Marceau. Her activity was to save Jews’ lives during the Holocaust. To survive Marcel pretended to be a worker at the school she directed.

8. When did Marcel Mangel adopt the name, Marcel Marceau?

Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the last name “Marceau” during the German occupation of France; the name was chosen as a reference to Fran莽ois S茅verin Marceau-Desgraviers, a general of the French Revolution.

The two brothers joined the French Resistance in Limoges. They rescued numerous children from the race laws and concentration camps in the framework of the Jewish Resistance in France, and, after the liberation of 麻豆APP, joined the French army.

Owing to Marceau’s fluency in English, French, and German, he worked as a liaison officer with General George Patton’s Third Army.

9. What made Marceau want to become a mime?

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People choose careers because they have had motivation from people experienced in the field of the profession they want to be. For Marcel, Charlie Chaplain motivated him to become a mime.

According to Marceau, when he was five years of age, his mother took him to a Charlie Chaplin film, which entranced him and made him want to become a mime. The first time he used mime was after France was invaded, to keep Jewish children quiet while he helped them escape to neutral Switzerland.

10. Marceau performed all over the world to spread the art of silence

It was the intellectual minority who knew of him until he first toured the United States in 1955 and 1956, close on the heels of his North American debut at the Stratford Festival of Canada.

After his opening engagement at the Phoenix Theater in New York, which received rave reviews, he moved to the larger Barrymore Theater to accommodate the public demand.

This first U.S. tour ended with a record-breaking return to standing-room-only crowds in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other major cities.

His extensive transcontinental tours included South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, South East Asia, Taiwan, Russia, and Europe. His last world tour covered the United States in 2004 and returned to Europe in 2005 and Australia in 2006. He was one of the world’s most renowned mimes.