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LOUISE CONTAT

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

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