Adrienne Lecouvreur
Adrienne Couvreur , known as Lecouvreur was born with Damery (the Marne) close to Épernay the April 5th 1692 and died in Paris the March 20th 1730. She is regarded as largest Actrice of her time.
Girl of a washing machine, it begins with the theater from Lille, then comes to Paris where it is pointed out at the time of her beginnings in the court of the hotel of Sourdéac, street Garancière in Paris. She plays there Mithridate Jean Racine, the March 14th 1717. In June of the same year, it enters the troop of the Comédie-Française. She wants to play there Célimène in the Misanthropist , but must give up it, the public refusing to see it in a role of comedy so much she excels in the Tragédie.
She has a love affair with Maurice with Saxony, which is worth to him the fatal hatred of its rival, the duchess of Bubble. Its mysterious death, undoubtedly by poisoning, fact of the actress itself a tragic heroin. The church prohibits a Christian burial to him. It is thus buried on the run by friends of the marshal of Saxony and Voltaire, in the marsh of the Snap fastener. Voltaire concludes his ode on death from Miss Lecouvreur by these worms:
- Gods! why my country isn't any more the fatherland
- And of glory and the talents?
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