Marianne Dujardin

[2] Dujardin is regarded as one of the earliest and most notable French female theatre directors and as a pioneer for colleagues of her gender in that role.

From then on, she also performed larger roles, such as Junon in Sémélé by La Motte and Marin Marais (9 April 1709), and Manto in Manto la Fée by Mennesson and Jean-Baptiste Stuck (29 January 1711).

This new troupe performed in The Hague and Antwerp between 1721 and 1723, and in Brussels in 1724, where Dujardin became director of La Monnaie from 1725 to 1726.

She directed the theater of Metz (1729-1731), and travelled to Avignon (1731), Bayonne (1733), Toulouse and Montauban (1734), and finally to Marseille (1734-1736).

In 1735, Dujardin received permission to build a new, open theater hall in the garden of the Hôtel de Ville of Bordeaux.