Paul Mounet

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(Jean) Paul Mounet (1847-1922) was a French actor, brother of Jean Mounet-Sully. He was born at Bergerac, Dordogne, became a doctor of medicine, and first appeared on the stage in Horace at the Paris Odéon (1880). It was in 1889 that he first played at the Comédie Française, of which he became sociétaire two years later. Mounet gained his reputation in Les Erynnyes, L'Arlésienne, Othello, Patrie, Hamlet, La Furie, Anthony, Le Roi, L'Enigme, Le Dédale, and Œdipe Roi. He served also as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and became Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

A portrait painted by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel has been identified as Paul Mounet. The Portrait is held by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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