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BELLECOUR (1725-1778)

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BELLECOUR (1725-1778) , See also:French actor, whose real name was See also:JEAN See also:CLAUDE GILLES COLSON, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:January 1725, the son of a portrait-painter. He showed decided See also:artistic See also:talent, but soon deserted the See also:brush for the See also:stage under the name of Bellecour. After playing in the provinces he was called to the Comedie Frangaise, but his debut, on the 21st of See also:December 1750, as See also:Achilles in Iphigenie was not a See also:great success. He soon turned to more congenial See also:comedy roles, which for See also:thirty years he filled with great See also:credit. He was a very natural player, and his willingness to give others on the stage an opportunity to show their talents made him extremely popular. He wrote a successful See also:play, Fausses apparences (1761), and was very useful to the Comedie Frangaise in editing and adapting the plays of others. He died on the rgth of See also:November 1778• His wife, See also:ROSE PERRINE LE See also:Roy DE LA CORBINAYE, was born at See also:Lamballe on the loth of December 1730, the daughter of an See also:artillery officer. Under the stage name of Beaumenard she made her first See also:Paris See also:appearance in 1743 as See also:Gogo in See also:Favart's Le Coq du See also:village. After a See also:year at the See also:Opera Comique she played in several companies, including that of See also:Marshal See also:Saxe, who is said to have been not insensible to her charms. In 1749 she made her debut at the Comedie Frangaise as Dorine in Tartuffe, and her success was immediate. She retired in 1756, but after an See also:absence of five years, during which she married, she reappeared as Madame Bellecour, and continued her successes in soubrette parts in the plays of See also:Moliere and de See also:Regnard. She retired finally at the See also:age of sixty, but troublous times had put an end to the See also:pension which she received from See also:Louis XVI. and from the See also:theatre, and she died in abject poverty on the 5th of See also:August 1799.

There is a charming portrait of her owned by the Theatre See also:

Francais.

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