Madeleine Milhaud

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1902|3|22}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2008|1|17|1902|3|22}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| occupation = Stage actress
Librettist

| spouse = {{marriage|Darius Milhaud|1925|1974|end=died}}

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Madeleine Milhaud Milhaud (22 March 1902 – 17 January 2008){{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/16/france.theatre|title=Obituary: Madeleine Milhaud|access-date=20 October 2008|work=The Guardian|date=16 April 2008|location=London, UK|first=Roger|last=Nichols}} was a French actress and librettist. She was both cousin to and wife of composer Darius Milhaud.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955009|title=Madeleine Milhaud|access-date=20 October 2008|publisher=IMDb}}

Biography

Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris to Michel and Maria Milhaud.{{Cite web|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/madeleine-milhaud-actress-wife-of-the-composer-776120.html|title=Madeleine Milhaud: Actress wife of the composer|access-date=20 October 2008|work=The Independent|date=31 January 2008}} Her father was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels. She began acting at a young age, and had a long career as an actress and reciter.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

Madeleine married her cousin, Darius Milhaud, in 1925. The couple had one son, Daniel (1930–2014), a painter. Darius' piano suite La Muse Menagère (The Household Muse) is dedicated to her,{{cite news|url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3314156.ece|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100523093721/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3314156.ece|url-status= dead|archive-date= 23 May 2010|title=Madeleine Milhaud obituary|access-date=20 October 2008|publisher=Times Online|date=6 February 2008|location=London, UK}}{{subscription required}} and depicts their daily life together.{{Cite web|url=http://daniellathompson.com/Texts/Le_Boeuf/milhaud_at_mills.htm|title=The Boeuf Chronicles - Sitting out the War: Milhaud at Mills College|access-date=20 October 2008|date=11 June 2005}} She wrote the libretti for his operas Médée, Bolivar, and La Mère coupable.

The family fled France when the Germans were within range of Paris in May 1940. They reached Lisbon and from there sailed to America, where they and their 10-year-old son stayed for the remainder of the war. Darius taught at Mills College (in California) and Madeleine taught American students about French and French theatre. They returned to France in 1946.

Madeleine Milhaud

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