Marie Baptiste née Dumont or Du Mont (8 February 1733 Bordeaux, France - died after 1786) was a French stage actress and singer.
Louis Du Londel recruited eight new members to the Theater in his journey to The Hague, of which Marie Baptiste were counted as the most significant.
On 25 August 1762, in the middle of the fifth act of the play performed in honor of the queen's name's day, Maria Baptiste rushed out on stage and cried out that the theater was on fire.
The incident is described in a letter from the nobleman Knut Henrik Leijonhufvud to Carl Christoffer Gjörwell: The 4th act had just been performed and the orchestra played some music... at last, the theater called for silence with the customary clap; and at that moment.
[1] After this, panic occurred as the fire spread quickly in the wooden building, and Leijonhufvud described how a nobleman took the princess under one arm and another nobleman the two youngest princes, how the queen and the crown prince argued about who were to leave first, and how he himself gave way to "the poor ladies, who on account of their big skirts was in terrifying danger", while the whole building was burning around them.
In the end, the fire lead to the death of four people: a maid, a boy and two "servants", outside of the material losses, which were a catastrophe for the actors because their living quarters were in the same building and they thereby lost all their possessions.