Catherine-Jeanne Dupré

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Madame Quinault-Dufresne by Joseph Aved (engraving by François-Bernard Lépicié)
"Catherine de Seine" by Joseph Aved (engraving by Étienne Fessard)

Catherine-Marie-Jeanne Dupré Deseine (born September 5, 1705 in Paris , † July 15, 1767 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) also M me Quinault-Dufresne or with her stage name M lle de Seine was a French actress.

Live and act

M me Quinault-Dufresne had her debut on November 7, 1724 in Fontainebleau in the role of Hermione in a tragedy in five acts , the Andromache by Jean Racine (1639-1699). Later, on January 5, 1725, she appeared again at the Comédie-Française in the same role under her stage name M lle Dupré de Seine. In 1725 she played in a very decorative costume before the French King Louis XV. She created Dido in the work "Didon", a tragedy (1734) by Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan .

On May 20, 1727 she married the actor Abraham-Alexis Quinault (1693-1767) or Quinault-Dufresne in Lyon . Her husband's father was the French actor Jean Quinault (1656-1728) from Bourges . The couple had an illegitimate daughter named Jeanne-Catherine Quinault .

She withdrew from the stage life in 1732 and finally retired in the following years, from March 1736 with a pension of 1000 livres .

literature

  • Louis-Gabriel Michaud: Biographie universelle, ancienne et Moderne ou histoire, par ordre alphabétique, de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes. Vol. 36. Michaud, 1823, p. 428

Web links

Commons : Catherine-Marie-Jeanne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CÉSAR. Calendrier électronique des shows sous l'Ancien Régime et sous la révolution.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / cesar.org.uk  
  2. ↑ Genealogy Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastel ists before 1800. Online edition - 2008 (PDF, 76 kB)
  3. ↑ "Dufresne" sometimes also written as two words, or also as "Defresne" or "Dufrêne"
  4. ↑ biography universal; ou, Dictionnaire histoirique, contenant la nécrologie des hommes célèbres de tous les pays, des articles consacrés a l'histoire générale des peuples aux batailles memorables, aux grands evénements politiques, aux diverses sectes religieuses, etc., etc.; depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a nos jours. Vol. 5, Furne 1838, p. 102
  5. ↑ Pierre Lepape: Denis Diderot. A biography. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-593-35150-1 , p. 363
personal data
SURNAME Dupré, Catherine-Jeanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dupré Deseine, Catherine-Marie-Jeanne; Madame Quinault-Dufresne; Mademoiselle de Seine; Quinault-Dufresne, Catherine-Marie-Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1767
Place of death Saint-Germain-en-Laye