Larive

Jean Mauduit , known as Larive (or of the Bank ), is a French actor born with La Rochelle the August 6th 1747 and died in Montlignon the April 30th 1827.

Wire of a grocer of the La Rochelle, it leaves the paternal house to be dedicated to the Théâtre and is presented to Paris at Lekain of which it receives teaching. Engaged in the troop of M {{me}} Montansier, it plays Tours, then to Lyon, and returns to Paris where M {{the}} Clairon takes it under its protection.

Larive begins first once at the Comédie-Française the December 3rd 1770 but is not received there. It leaves to Brussels where D' Hannetaire engaged it for the first roles with the Théâtre of the Currency and where it will spend four years, to the sides Dazincourt, Grandmesnil and Florence. It is there that it becomes acquainted with his future wife, Eugenie D' Hannetaire, oldest daughter of the director, that it will marry in Paris the June 18th 1776. The couple will divorce in 1794.

The April 29th 1775, Larive begins again with the Comédie-Française and is allowed member the next on May 18th. Three years later, the death of Lekain leaves him the first place. It runs the province regularly and occurs in its birthplace in 1780, with Geneva, Lille, Bordeaux etc It leaves the Comédie-Française in 1788 but returns there in 1790, after having played in particular Lille.

Supplanted by Talma, imprisoned several times at the Revolution, Larive withdraws itself in its property of Montlignon of which he becomes mayor.

He had been the friend of Voltaire and had interpreted many main roles in his parts.

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