D\' Hannetaire

Jean-Nicolas Servandoni , known as D' Hannetaire , is a Acteur and director of Théâtre French born with Grenoble the November 3rd 1718 and died with Brussels on January 1st 1780.

Wire of the painter Florentin Jean-Nicolas Servandoni and of Marie-Josèphe Gravel, he is probably the nephew of famous the Servandoni to which one owes in particular the frontage of the church Saint-Sulpice with Paris. D' Hannetaire seems to have begun its career from actor in Germany, towards 1740. He plays castle of Arolsen, for the prince of Waldeck, towards 1743 and goes to Aachen in 1744, from where it arrives at Liege towards the end of the year. In November it presents to it a new Divertissement of songs and dances for the prince-bishop Jean-Theodore of Bavaria and there Marie the February 17th 1745 with the actress Marguerite-Antoinette Huet, known as Miss Danicourt. The couple arrives at Brussels in October 1745 and D' Hannetaire takes the direction of the Théâtre of the Currency, of which it is dislodged by Favart four months later. It is however integrated, like his wife, in the troop of the marshal of Saxony and includes the direction of the theater after the departure of the French troops, with the end of the year 1748.

He plays then Toulouse and Bordeaux, then begins with the Comédie-Française the April 27th 1752 in the role from Orgon from Tartuffe . But he prefers to return to Brussels, in the troop of Durancy, which entrusts the roles “with coats” and the roles of Crispin to him. In 1755, it takes again the direction of the troop, forsaken by Durancy, and until in 1771, sometimes only preserves it, sometimes in partnership with other actors.

D' Hannetaire and his wife had eight children, including two girls who also went up on the boards:

  • Eugenie (1746 - 1816), which married the actor Larive and to which the prince de Ligne dedicated its Lettres to Eugenie on the spectacles (1774)
  • Angélique (1749 - 1822), which was the mistress of the Desandrouins Viscount, then same prince de Ligne.

D' Hannetaire is the author of the Observations on the Art of the Actor, and other objects concerning this Profession in general , which will know eight editions, initially anonymous, then under the name of Dhannetaire (1772, 1774,1775,1776,1778 and 1800).

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