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CONTAT, LOUISE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 24 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONTAT, See also:LOUISE FRANcOISE (176o-1813), See also:French actress, made her debut at the Comedie Francaise in 1766 as Atalide in Bajazet. It was in See also:comedy, however, that she made her first success, as Suzanne in See also:Beaumarchais's Mariage de See also:Figaro; and in several See also:minor See also:character parts, which she raised to the first importance, and as the soubrette in the plays of See also:Moliere and See also:Marivaux, she found opportunities exactly fitted to her talents. She retired in 1809 and married de See also:Parny, See also:nephew of the poet. Her See also:sister See also:Marie Emilie Contat (1769-1846), an admirable soubrette, especially as the pert servant See also:drawn by Moliere and de See also:Regnard, made her debut in 1784, and retired. in 1815.

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