Mademoiselle Anaïs
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Portrait de Mademoiselle Anaïs, lithographie de Pierre Langlumé | |
| Born | 1802 Paris |
| Died | 25 July 1871 Louveciennes |
Anaïs Pauline Nathalie Aubert, known as Mademoiselle Anaïs (1802–1871) was a French actress.
Biography
[edit]Anaïs was born in Toury, Eure-et-Loir, and entered the Comédie-Française in 1816 at the age of just fourteen. In 1832 she was chosen to be the 252nd Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.[1]
She distinguished herself particularly in ingénue parts, becoming famous in the roles of Chérubin in The Marriage of Figaro and Agnès in The School for Wives.[2]
She had an affair with a British Army general and Member of Parliament, Sir Edward Stopford, resulting in the birth in 1819 of a son who also became a British Army general, Edward Stopford Claremont.[citation needed]
She resigned from the Comédie-Française in 1851 and died in 1871, aged 69, at Louveciennes.
References
[edit]- ^ ANAIS Anaïs-Pauline-Nathalie Aubert, dite Mlle, Comédie-Française (in French)
- ^ Anais in Enciclopedia Italiana (1929) (in Italian)
External links
[edit]- Mademoiselle Anaïs, Les Archives du Spectacle (in French)
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