Adélaïde-Louise-Pauline Hus

Adélaïde-Louise-Pauline Hus (born March 31, 1734 in Rennes , † October 18, 1805 in Paris ) was an actress of the Comédie-Française and became famous as a courtesan . She was known in Paris under her stage name Mademoiselle Hus . Not least with her love life, Hus achieved cultural-historical relevance because famous writers of their time made material for their works from it.

origin

Hus came from a French family of actors. She was the daughter of François Hus and Françoise Gravillon. In addition to acting, her mother was also a successful playwright. As a traveling theater company, the family of Adélaïde-Louise-Pauline Hus led a wandering life in Europe with longer stays in Nantes , Provence , Italy and the Netherlands. Around 1750 the troop gradually disbanded and Françoise Hus-Gravillon moved to Paris. Adélaïde-Louise-Pauline had at least four siblings. Her brother was the ballet dancer and choreographer Jean-Baptiste Hus (around 1736-1805). Her cousin Auguste Hus (1769–1829) was a dancer and writer.

love life

Hus had a long-standing liaison with the king's treasurer, Bertin de Blagny , with whom they had a son, Louis Auguste Bertin d'Antilly (1760-1804), fils naturel Bertins. He received a careful upbringing, devoted himself to literature and the theater, founded several newspapers and fled to Moscow to the Tsar's court after the French Revolution , where he died in 1804, before his mother.

Just like her lover Bertin de Blagny, Hus also had a number of more or less long relationships with changing partners. The liaison of the two ended after Bertin his mistress in flagrante had caught and an affair with the actress and rival Sophie Arnould began.

In 1775 Hus married the royal pharmacist and distiller Louis Èlis Lelièvre ; she divorced him in 1793.

Acting career and impact

Adélaïde-Louise-Pauline Hus gave her debut on July 26, 1751 at the age of 17 at the Comédie-Française , which was not very successful. After a second attempt two years later, in 1753, her career began at the same house. Hus took on roles in plays by Molière and Voltaire , among others . Hus ended her theater career in 1780, and from 1786 she received a pension of 500 livres from the French king .

Much discussion material was produced in the salons of the time about the love affair between Hus and Bertin, and it was also reflected in a wealth of anecdotes and gossip stories in the memoirs and letters of the time. The material became famous as one of the topics of conversation in Diderot's work Rameau's nephew between the figure of the philosopher and that of Rameau. In their letters, Diderot and Voltaire stated that they had a mediocre talent for the theater, but at the same time praised their beauty and charm, which made them popular with the Parisian theater audience.

literature

• Joseph François Michaud ; Louis Gabriel Michaud : Biography universelle ancienne et modern: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes . Supplement. Vol 67. Paris 1840, pp. 491-494. link
• Émile Campardon : Les comédiens du roi de la troupe française pendant les deux derniers siècles. Documents inédits recueillis aux archives nationales . Paris, H. Champion, Paris [1879]. Reprint 2009. ISBN 978-1-115-85239-5

Web links

• Aurore Evain: Françoise Nicole Gravillon Du Hausay , published by Siefar, Dictionnaire des Femmes de l'ancienne France, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ entry to Françoise Nicole Gravillon You Hausay , siefar.org, accessed on July 15, 2013.
2. ↑ Michaud: Biographie universelle ... Vol 58. P. 141-143; Galanteries d'une demoiselle du monde ou souvenirs de M ^lle Duthé. Paris 1833. p. 410.
3. ^ Sophie Arnould et ses contemporaines. Recueil choisi d'anecdotes piquantes… de M ^lle Arnould. Paris 1813. pp. 62, 119; JF Falvey: Diderot. Le Neveu de Rameau. 1985.
4. ↑ Agnes Pozzi: Mieux connaître Diderot ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 2010, agnespozzi.blogspot.de, accessed on July 16, 2013.