Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux

By 1825 she had taken the second prize for comedy, and was engaged to play ingenue parts at the Comédie-Française, where her first appearance in this capacity was as Jenny in L'Argent on 8 December 1826.

She was then engaged at the French theatre at St. Petersburg, a scene praised by the Russian aristocracy and the Imperial family.

[1] Returning to Paris, she brought with her, as Legouve says, a thing she had unearthed, a little comedy never acted until she took it up, a production half-forgotten, and esteemed by those who knew it as a pleasing piece of work in the Marivaux style: Un Caprice by Alfred de Musset, which she had played with success in French in St. Petersburg.

In the following year his comedy Il ne faut jurer de rien was acted at the same theatre, and thus led to the production of his finer plays.

In the last, with a part of only fifty lines, and playing by the very side of the great Rachel, she yet held her own as an actress of the first rank.