Marie Claveau

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Portrait of the actress Marie Claveau by Frédéric Hillemacher

Marie Claveau called Mademoiselle du Croisy (* in Sainte-Hermine ; † September 1703 in Dourdan ) was a French comedian . She joined Molière's troops in 1659 , whose unsteady fate she shared even after Molière's death.

Marie Claveau, daughter of Louis Claveau sieur de Langlois and Marie Boursault, was her first marriage to a certain Nicolas de Lécol, sieur de Saint-Maurice. Widowed on July 29, 1652, she married the actor Philippe Gassot called du Croisy in Poitiers and joined the company of Molière in 1659.

After Molière's death (1673) the couple played "du Croisy" under the direction of his widow Armande Béjart . The comedians, who had been ousted from the hall of the Palais Royal by Jean-Baptiste Lully , took the name "Troupe de l'Hôtel Guénégaud" after their new place of work, the ball game house "Jeu de Paume de La Bouteille" in rue Guénégaud. on. When this troupe was merged with the "Troupe de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne" in 1680 on the orders of the king and henceforth called Comédie-Française , Mademoiselle du Croisy (Marie Claveau) was among the first sociétaires (partners) of the Comédie-Française . In 1687, the troupe was able to acquire the old ballroom "Jeu de Paume de l'Etoile" (from 1547) in the rue des Fossées Saint-Germain and had its own theater built by the architect François d'Orbay .

Mademoiselle du Croisy (Marie Claveau) played there until 1694, the year in which Armande Béjart also retired. She died, almost three years after Armande, in Dourdan in September 1703.

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