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DESGARCINS, MAGDELEINE See also:MARIE [See also:LouISE] (1769–1797) , See also:French actress, was See also:born at Mont Dauphin (Hautes Alpes). In her See also:short career she became one of the greatest of French tragediennes, the See also:associate of Talmo., with whom she nearly always played. Her debut at the Comedic Francaise occurred on the 24th of May 1788, in Bajazet, with such success that she was at once made societaire. She was one of the actresses who See also:left the Comedie Francaise in 1791 for the See also:house in the See also:rue See also:Richelieu, soon to become the See also:Theatre de la Republique, and there her triumphs were no less—in See also:King See also:Lear, Othello, La Harpe's Melanie et Virginie, &c. Her See also:health, however, failed, and she died insane, in See also:Paris, on the 27th of See also:October 1797.

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