Madame Acquaire also known as Mlle Babet (d. after 1786), was a French stage actress and theatre director, active in Saint-Domingue.
Petit-Goave did not possess an actual theatre, but theatrical and musical performances was immensely popular in Saint-Domingue and an important part of the colony's social life, and theatrical and musical performances was staged by local amateurs assisted by professional actors.
On June 18, 1777, the Affiches Americaines announced that Beaumarchais' Barbier de Sevilla and l'Braeur d'un moment, a one-act opera by Monvel, would be performed to the benefit of Mlle Babet, staged by the local amateur theatre society, prior to her departure from her position as director after her marriage to the actor 'Monsieur Acquaire', with whom she was engaged at the Comédie de Port-au-Prince after its foundation in 1778.
Mme Acquaire left Saint-Domingue for France in 1786, and was joined by her spouse five years later, after the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution of 1791.
She is portrayed in a novel about Minette et Lise by Marie Chauvet, La Danse sur le Volcan (Paris: Plon, 1957; Paris / Léchelle: Maisonneuve & Larose / Emina Soleil, 2004 (reprint with a preface by Catherine Hermary-Vieille); Léchelle: Zellige, 2008, 2009)[3] Translated into English by Salvator Attanasio as Dance on the Volcano (New York: William Sloane Associates, 1959)