MLLE See also:

• MLLE RAUCOURT (1756–1815)

RAUCOURT (1756–1815)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French actress, whose real name was Francoise See also:

• MARIE

Marie Antoinette Saucerotte, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• NANCY

Nancy on the 3rd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1756, the daughter of an actor, who took her to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, where she played in tragedy at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twelve . By 1770 she was back in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France at See also:

• ROUEN

Rouen, and her success as Euphemie in See also:

• BELLOY, DORMONT DE

Belloy's Gaston et See also:

• BAYARD, PIERRE TERRAIL, SEIGNEUR DE (1473–1524)
• BAYARD, THOMAS FRANCIS (1828-1898)

Bayard caused her to be called to the Comedic Francaise, where in 1772 she made her debut as See also:

• DIDO, or ELISSA

Dido . She played all the classical tragedy parts to crowded houses, until the scandals of her private See also:

• LIFE

life and her extravagance ended her popularity . In 1776 she suddenly disappeared . See also:

• PART

Part of the ensuing three years she was in See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison for See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

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

northern See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, followed everywhere by See also:

• SCANDAL

scandal . Under See also:

• PROTECTION

protection of the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen she reappeared at the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais in 1779, and renewed her success in Phedre, as See also:

• CLEOPATRA

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 (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage until the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of 1793, and then only for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short time . She deserted, with a dozen of the best actors in the See also:

• COMPANY

company, to found a See also:

• RIVAL

rival See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony, but a See also:

• SUMMONS (Fr. semonce, from semonner or semondre, Lat. summonere, summonitio)

summons from the See also:

• DIRECTORY

Directory brought her back in 1797 . See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon gave her a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension, and921 in r8o6 she was commissioned to organize and See also:

• DIRECT

direct a company that was to tour See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, where, especially in See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, she was enthusiastically received . She returned to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris a few months before her See also:

• DEATH

death on the 15th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1815 . Her funeral was the occasion of a See also:

• RIOT (0. Fr. riote, of uncertain etymology)

riot . The See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy of her See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish having refused to receive the See also:

• BODY

body, the See also:

• CROWD, CROUTH, CROWTH

crowd See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

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 (from Lat. eleemosynarius, through med. Lat. almosynarius, almonarius, and Fr. almosnier, aumosniea, &c., mod. Fr. aumonier)

almoner sent See also:

• POST

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 .