Laurence Grivot

Laurence Grivot (born Marie Laurent, 29 April 1843,[1] Versailles – died 4 June 1890,[2] Thomery) was a French operetta singer and actress.

She made her debut at the Théâtre des Batignolles in Le Petit Nicol by Alfred Séguin in 1863 and was then engaged (under the name "Mlle Laurence") at the Vaudeville as Nicette in La Chercheuse d'esprit by Charles-Simon Favart, where she met Pierre Grivot whom she married in 1866.

She continued with successes in Les Brebis galeuses and Les Faux Bonshommes by Théodore Barrière, La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Le Sacrifice by Alphonse Daudet, and Le Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais.

At the advent of the Paris Commune in 1871, she joined her husband to run the Gaîté theatre, with performances of La Grâce de Dieu.

[4] Taken ill during a performance of Paris fin de siècle by Ernest Blum and Raoul Toché at the Gymnase in 1890 she was forced to retire and died, aged 47, later that year.