Jeanne Julia Bartet (1854 – 28 October 1941), French actress, was born in Paris and trained at the Conservatoire. In 1872 she began a successful career at the Vaudeville, and in 1879 was engaged at the Comédie-Française, of which she became a sociétaire in 1880. For many years she played the chief parts both in tragedy and comedy. She had a season in London in 1908, when her consummate art was displayed in a number of parts.
Jeanne Julia Bartet died in 1941 and was interred in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.
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