Ève Lavallière


Ève Lavallière, full name Eugénie Marie Pascaline Fenoglio,, was a French stage actress and later a noteworthy Catholic penitent and member of the Secular Franciscan Order.

Biography

Ève Lavallière was born at 8 rue Champ-de-Mars in Toulon. She was the daughter of Louis-Emile Fenoglio, a tailor of Neapolitan origin, and Albania-Marie Rana, who was born in Perpignan. At birth, her parents already had a son. Her birth was not desired, and she was placed, up to school age, with a local family of peasants. At school age, however, she was enrolled by her parents in a private school of excellent reputation. After the death of her parents in tragic circumstances and running away from home she arrived in Paris as a teenager.
She became an actress renowned in the Belle Époque, including the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris.
From 1917, she moved to the castle of Choisille, at Chanceaux-sur-Choisille, Indre-et-Loire. She had a radical religious conversion and became a devout Catholic. She wished to join a religious order and for a time was a medical missionary in Tunisia. She became a Franciscan tertiary, a member of the Secular Franciscans or Third Order of St Francis.
She is buried in Thuillières where she died in 1929.

Theater

Her most famous roles were in the following:
Sem.