Miss Raucourt

Francoise-Marie-Antoinette Saucerotte , known as Miss Raucourt , is a French Actrice born with Nancy or Dombasle the March 3rd 1756 and died in Paris the January 15th 1815.

She was girl of an actor of province and began in Rouen successfully in the tragedy.

She was destined for Paris in 1772 with the Comédie-Française in 1772 and becomes member the following year. She was first of all acquired a bright reputation, which she had with her beauty as much as with her talent. Its too powerful body badly lent itself to the expression sensitivity, but it had with the more high degree the nobility, dignity, the irony, vehemence and excelled in strong passions, in the roles of Cléopâtre, Cornélie, Agrippine, Athalie, Médée or Sémiramis.

Very opposite with the Revolution, it undergoes six months of prison in 1793, and saw closing by order of the Directoire a second Th3e4atre Fran1cais whom it had founded (Salle Louvois).

It reappeared on scene in 1799, was richly pensioned from Bonaparte, which charged it with organizing the troops of French actors who were to traverse the Italy, then returned to live in the retirement in Paris. The clergy of the church Saint-Roch having refused the entry of the church to his body, the multitude inserted the doors and introduced of force his coffin.

Sources

Patrick Cardoon, Enfans de Sodome with the National Assembly (1790) , Lille, Question of Genre/GKC, 2005. Chapter “Freedom or Miss Raucourt”.

External bond

Its parts and its roles on site CÉSAR

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