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DUGAZON [See also:JEAN See also:HENRI See also:GOURGAUD] (1746-1809) , See also:French actor, was See also:born in See also:Marseilles on the 15th of See also:November 1746, the son of the director of military hospitals there. He began his career in the provinces, making his debut in 1770 at the Comedie Frangaise, where he aspired to leading See also:comedy roles. He pleased the public at once and was made societaire in 1772. Dugazon was an ardent revolutionist, helped the See also:schism which divided the See also:company, and went with See also:Talma and the others to what became the See also:Theatre de la Republique. After the closing of this theatre, and the See also:dissolution of the Comedie Frangaise, he took See also:refuge at the Theatre See also:Feydeau until (1799) he returned to the restored Comedie. He retired in 18o7, and died insane at Sandillon in 'Soo. Dugazon wrote three mediocre comedies of a See also:political See also:character, performed at the Theatre de la Republique. He married, in 1776, See also:Louis See also:Rose Lefevre, but was soon divorced and then married again. The first Madame Dugazon (1755-1821), the daughter of a See also:Berlin dancing See also:master, was a charming actress. Her first See also:appearance on the See also:stage was made at the See also:age of twelve as a dancer. It was as an actress " with songs " that she made her debut at the Comedie Italienne in 1774 in See also:Gretry's Sylvain. She was at once admitted pensionnaire and in 1776 societaire.

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Paris, and nightly crowded the Comedie Italienne for more than twenty years. The two kinds of parts with which she was especially identified—young mothers and See also:women past their first youth—are still called "dugazons" and "metes dugazons." Examples of the first are Jenny in La See also:Dame See also:blanche and Berthe de Simiane in See also:Les Mousquetaires de la reine; of the second, See also:Marguerite in Le Pre aux clercs and the See also:queen in La See also:Part du diable. Dugazon's See also:sister, See also:MARIE ROSE GOURGAUD (1743-1804), was an actress who first played at See also:Stuttgart, where she married Angelo, See also:brother of Gaetano See also:Vestris, the dancer. Under the See also:protection of the See also:dukes of See also:Choiseul and Duras, she was commanded to make her debut at the Comedie Frangaise in 1768, where she created important parts in a number of tragedies.

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