Jean Dara was the stage name of Edouard de La Gandara, brother of painter Antonio de La Gandara

Antonio de La Gandara

Antonio de la Gándara was a French painter, pastellist and draughtsman.-Biography:He was born in Paris, France, but his father was of Spanish ancestry, born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and his mother was from England. La Gandara's talent was strongly influenced by both cultures...

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Jean Dara worked with Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...

 during several years in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, London

London

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 and in the United States of America. Some of the characters he played were: - Georges in 'Spiritisme' by Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play...

 - Comte de Sedlinsky in 'L'Aiglon' by Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century...

 - Trevilhac in 'La Tosca' by Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play...

 - Cardinal Cibo Malaspina in 'Lorenzaccio' by Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Musset

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...

 - Fray Théofilo Harra in 'La Sorcière' by Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play...

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When his brother died, Edouard de La Gandara ended his theatre career to focus on his antiques business located at the fashionable Quai Voltaire in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. He remained close to a number of writers, actors and actresses until his death. They include Colette

Colette

Colette was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette . She is best known for her novel Gigi, upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title.-Early life and marriage:Colette was born to retired military officer Jules-Joseph...

, Paul Fort

Paul Fort

Paul Fort was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. At the age of 18, reacting against the Naturalistic theatre, Fort founded the Théâtre d’Art...

, Abel Hermant

Abel Hermant

Abel Hermant was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie Française.-Biography:Hermant was born in Paris, the son of an architect....

, Robert de Montesquiou

Robert de Montesquiou

Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac , was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy....

, Georges Lecomte

Georges Lecomte

Georges Lecomte was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies....

, René Fauchois, Cécile Sorel, Mary Marquet, Jacques Deval, Anna de Noailles, Edouard Henriot, Maurice Donnay

Charles Maurice Donnay

Charles Maurice Donnay , French dramatist, was born of middle-class parents in Paris. Graduated as an engineer of École Centrale Paris, he left the industrial sector to write....

, Marie Samary, Marie Leconte, Simone

Simone

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, Albert Flament, and J.H. Rosny.

Dara is buried at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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