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MARIE MADELEINE GUIMARD (1743-1816)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 696 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE MADELEINE See also:GUIMARD (1743-1816)  , See also:French dancer, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:October 1743 . For twenty-five years she was the See also:star of the Paris See also:Opera . She made herself even more famous by her love affairs, especially by her See also:long liaison with the See also:prince de See also:Soubise . She bought a magnificent See also:house at See also:Pantin, and built a private See also:theatre connected with it, where Colle's Partie de See also:chasse de See also:Henri IV which was prohibited in public, and most of the Proverbes of Carmontelle (See also:Louis Carrogis, 1717-1806), and similar licentious performances were given to the delight of high society . In 1772, in See also:defiance of the 696 See also:archbishop of Paris, she opened a gorgeous house with a theatre seating five See also:hundred spectators in the Chaussee d'Antin . In this See also:Temple of Terpsichore, as she named it, the wildest orgies took See also:place . In 1786 she was compelled to get rid of the See also:property, and it was disposed of by lottery for her benefit for the sum of 300,000 francs . Soon after her retirement in 1789 she married See also:Jean See also:Etienne Despreaux (1748-1820), dancer, See also:song-writer and playwright .

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