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Marie Champmeslé (
18 February 1642 –
15 May 1698) was a
French actress.
She was born in
Rouen of a good family; her father's name was Desmares. She made her first appearance on the stage at Rouen with
Charles Chevillet Champmeslé (1645-170?), who called himself sieur de Champmeslé, and they were married in 1666. By 1669 they were playing in
Paris at the
Theatre du Marais, her first appearance there being as Venus in
Boyer's
Fête de Vénus. The next year, as Hermione in
Jean Racine's
Andromaque, she'd a great success at the
Hotel de Bourgogne. Her intimacy with Racine dates from then. Some of his finest tragedies were written for her, but her repertoire wasn't confined to them, and many an indifferent play - like
Thomas Corneille's
Ariene and
Comte d'Essex - owed its success to her natural manner of acting, and her pathetic rendering of the hapless heroine.
Phaedre was the climax of her triumphs, and when she and her husband deserted the Hotel de Bourgogne, it was selected to open the
Comédie-Française on
26 August,
1680. Here, with
Madame Gurin as the leading comedy actress, she played the great tragic love parts for more than thirty years.
La Fontaine dedicated to her his novel
Beiphigor, and
Boileau immortalized her in verse. Her husband distinguished himself both as actor and playwright, and his
Farisien (1682) gave Mme Gurin one of her greatest successes.
Her brother, the actor
Nicolas Desmares (c. 1650-1714), began as a member of a subsidized company at Copenhagen, but by her influence he came to Paris and was received in 1685 sans debut, the first time such an honor had been accorded at the Comedie Francaise, where he became famous for peasant parts. His daughter, to whom Christian V. and his queen stood sponsors,
Christine Antoinette Charlotte Desmares (1682-1753), was a fine actress in both tragedy and soubrette parts. She made her debut at the Comédie-Française in 1699, in La Grange Chancels Oreste et Pylade, and was at once received as sociétaire. She retired in 1721.
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