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See also:RAUCOURT, MLLE (1756–1815) , See also:French actress, whose real name was Francoise See also:Marie Antoinette Saucerotte, was See also:born in See also:Nancy on the 3rd of See also:March 1756, the daughter of an actor, who took her to See also:Spain, where she played in tragedy at the See also:age of twelve. By 1770 she was back in See also:France at See also:Rouen, and her success as Euphemie in See also:Belloy's Gaston et See also:Bayard caused her to be called to the Comedic Francaise, where in 1772 she made her debut as See also:Dido. She played all the classical tragedy parts to crowded houses, until the scandals of her private See also:life and her extravagance ended her popularity. In 1776 she suddenly disappeared. See also:Part of the ensuing three years she was in See also:prison for See also:debt, but some of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time she spent in the capitals of See also:northern See also:Europe, followed everywhere by See also:scandal. Under See also:protection of the See also:queen she reappeared at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais in 1779, and renewed her success in Phedre, as See also:Cleopatra, and all her former roles. At the outbreak of the Revolution she was imprisoned for six months with other royalist members of the Comedie Francaise, and she did not reappear upon that See also:stage until the See also:close of 1793, and then only for a See also:short time. She deserted, with a dozen of the best actors in the See also:company, to found a See also:rival See also:colony, but a See also:summons from the See also:Directory brought her back in 1797. See also:Napoleon gave her a See also:pension, and921
in r8o6 she was commissioned to organize and See also:direct a company that was to tour See also:Italy, where, especially in See also:Milan, she was enthusiastically received. She returned to See also:Paris a few months before her See also:death on the 15th of See also:January 1815. Her funeral was the occasion of a See also:riot. The See also:clergy of her See also:parish having refused to receive the See also:body, the See also:crowd See also:broke in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church doors, and were only restrained from further violence by the arrival of an See also:almoner sent See also:post-haste by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII. She is buried at Pere Lachaise.
End of Article: RAUCOURT, MLLE (1756–1815)
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