Armande Béjart

Together, they had three children: Louis (19 January – 11 November 1664), Marie Madeleine Esprit (3 August 1665 – 23 May 1723) and Pierre Jean-Baptiste Armand (15 September – 11 October 1672).

She played her first important role in Molière's company in June 1663, as Élise in the Critique de l'école des femmes.

She was out of the cast for a short time in 1664, when she had a son with Molière, with Louis XIV and Henrietta of England standing sponsors to the child.

In the spring, beginning with the fêtes at Versailles given by the king to Anne of Austria and Maria Theresa of Spain, she started her long list of important roles.

Three years after the death of Molière, Armande paid 5400 pounds for a house in Meudon a suburb of Paris.