Françoise Jacob de Montfleury, stage name Mademoiselle Dennebault (
fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...
1661 – 1708), was a French stage actress.
[Émile Campardon, Les Comédiens du roi de la troupe française pendant les deux derniers siècles, Paris, H. Champion, 1879]
She was engaged at the
Molière's company
Molière's company (''La Troupe de Molière'') was the theatrical company which formed around Molière from 1648 onwards, when he was performing in the French provinces after the failure of the Illustre Théâtre in 1645. In 1658 the company move ...
in 1661. She became a
Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française The sociétaires of the Comédie-Française are chosen from among the ''pensionnaires'' who have been in the company a year or more.
They are decided upon in the course of a general assembly of the company's administrative committee, made up of 6 e ...
in 1680. She retired in 1685.
She played the tragic heroines Junie (Britannicus, 1669) and Aricie (Phèdre, 1677) by
Racine, in the comedies of her brother
Antoine de Montfleury, as well as
breeches role
In theater, a breeches role or breeches part (also pants role, pants part, trouser role, trouser part, and Hosenrolle) is a role in which a female actor performs in male clothing. Breeches, tight-fitting knee-length pants, were a standard male ...
s of ''La Femme juge'' and ''La Fille capitaine''.
References
External links
Mademoiselle Dennebault Comédie-Française
17th-century births
1708 deaths
17th-century French actresses
French stage actresses
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