Sophie Arnould
Madeleine-Sophie Arnould , also Magdeleine Arnould (born February 14, 1744 in Paris , † October 22, 1802 ) was a French opera singer (soprano) and Salonnière of the Enlightenment .
Life
Sophie Arnould received a good education and came to the French court as an " apprentice " in the royal chapel. From there she was brought to the Paris Opera in 1757 , where she was the darling of the public until 1778. Arnould shone as much with her pure, lively and expressive singing as she did with her beautiful playing.
Their audience, especially their admirers, compared Arnould to Ninon de Lenclos . In her salon she received famous enlighteners of her time such as d'Alembert , Diderot , Mably , Duclos , JJ Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin .
Pierre-Joseph Bernard , Jean Dorat , Charles-Simon Favart and Antoine François Marmontel sang about them. Her sometimes very biting joke became proverbial, so that Albéric Deville collected her bonmots under the title "Arnoldiana" and published it after her death (1813).
Through the mediation of Police Minister Joseph Fouché , the state granted her a pension and free apartment in the Hotel d´Angevillers , where she was also the center of a circle of poets, artists and philosophers.
Sophie Arnould was the mistress of Louis-Léon de Brancas , Duc de Lauragais. Their son Antoine Constant was born on October 16, 1784 and recognized by his father on July 12, 1786.
literature
- Erwin Angermayer (ed.): Great women of world history. 1000 biographies in words and pictures . Neuer Kaiser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1987, ISBN 3-7043-3064-7 , p. 32.
- Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. 1000 biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 32.
- Albéric Deville: Arnoldiana, ou Sophie Arnould et ses contemporaines ; recueil choisi d'anecdotes piquantes, de réparties et de bons mots de Mlle. Arnould; précédé d'une notice on sa vie et sur l'Académie impériale de musique . Éditions Gerard, Paris 1815.
- MM. Edmond et Jules de Gouncourt: Sophie Arnould d'après sa correspondance et ses mémoires inédits. Publisher: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, Paris, Published 1857
- Edmond de Goncourt : Sophie Arnould: d'après sa correspondance et ses mémoires inédits . Charpentier, Paris 1893 ( digitized version of an edition from 1922 )
- Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon: Mémoires de Mademoiselle Sophie Arnoult, recueillis et publiés par la Baron de Lamothe Langon . Allardin, Paris 1837
- Robert B. Douglas: Sophie Arnould, actress and wit . With seven Copper-Plate Engravings by Adolphe Lalauze. Publisher: Charles Carrington, Paris Published 1898
- H. Noel Williams: Later queens of the French stage . Publisher: London Harper Published 1906
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1927, Volume 1, p. 889.
Web links
- Sophie Arnould at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Portraits in the collection of the French National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnould, Sophie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnould, Madeleine-Sophie (full name); Arnould, Magdeleine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera singer (soprano) and Salonnière of the Enlightenment |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1744 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1802 |