Marguerite Béguin, stage name Mademoiselle de Villiers (fl.
She was engaged in the troupe of Mondory in the Théâtre du Marais in 1629, and then at the Hôtel de Bourgogne (theatre).
Between 1629 and 1634, only two actresses were employed by the theatre and able to play these roles, Mlle Le Noir (Isabelle or Elizabeth Mestivier) and Mlle de Villiers (Marguerite Béguin), it has often been assumed that he wrote the plays with them in mind.
The contemporary chronicler Tallemant noted that she had an affair with Henry II, Duke of Guise, archbishop of Rheims, who wore yellow silk stockings under his soutane because she liked the color yellow.
[1] Later, Tallemant describes her in the 1650s as "not too beautiful", and "an excellent person in her profession" and implicates she was the equal to Mondory.