François Moylin, called Francisque, was an 18th-century French actor born c.1695 and died c. 1760.
An actor in fairs and showman impresario, Francisque first played in the province and came to Paris to the foire Saint-Germain in 1715 and then to that of 1718.
In 1720 he founded a troupe composed largely of his family, in which his brother Simon played Harlequin.
This privilege was not extended and the Comédie-Française forbade him to perform plays with dialogues, leaving no choice but employing puppeteers and rope dansers [fr] Francisque fled Paris in 1723 and travelled through the provinces.
Grenoble, Nancy, Rouen, Amiens, Avignon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Brussels and The Hague could admire the skill of the actor and the troupe director as talented as he was mysterious.