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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 760 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNE FRANCOISE HYPPOLYTE BOUTET] See also:MARS (1779-1847)  , See also:French actress, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 9th of See also:February 1779, the natural daughter of the actor-author named See also:Monvel [Jacques See also:Marie Boutet, 1745-18121, and ,Mlle See also:Mars Salvetat, an actress whose See also:southern See also:accent had made her Paris debut a failure . Mlle Mars began her See also:stage career in See also:children's parts, and by 1799, after the rehabilitation of the Comedie Francaise, she and her See also:sister (Mars ainee) joined that See also:company, of which she remained an active member for See also:thirty-three years . Her beauty and talents soon placed her at the See also:top of her profession . She was incomparable in ingenue parts, and equally charming as the coquette . See also:Moliere, See also:Marivaux, See also:Sedaine, and See also:Beaumarchais had no more accomplished interpreter, and in her career of See also:half a See also:century, besides many See also:comedy roles of the older repertoire, she created fully a See also:hundred parts in plays which owed success largely to her . For her farewell performance she selected Elmire in Tartuffe, and Silvia in See also:feu de ?amour et du hasard, two of her most popular roles; and for her benefit, a few days after, Celimene in Le Misanthrope and Araminthe in See also:Les Femmes savantes . She retired in 1841, and died in Paris on the loth of See also:March 1847 .

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