Marie-Anne Botot Dangeville

The daughter of the dancing-master Antoine-François Botot Dangeville and the actress Catherine Desmares, she made her stage début aged only eight.

She played her first major rôle aged 15 on 28 January 1730 in Philippe Néricault Destouches's comedy Le Médisant.

Two months later she was received into the troupe of the Comédiens du roi where she "filled soubrette roles and several other characters in an inimitable manner".

[1] She then remained successful for over thirty years before retiring to a house on rue de Vaugirard in Paris in 1763.

There she held family celebrations and received poets and writers such as Antoine-Marin Lemierre, Claude Joseph Dorat and Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix.