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Madame Bellecour

French actress
Also known as: Mademoiselle Beauménard, Rose-Perrine le Roy de la Corbinave(Show More)
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Madame Bellecour (born Dec. 20, 1730, Lamballe, Fr.—died Aug. 5, 1799, Paris) was a French actress noted for her performances in works of Molière and Regnard. The daughter of an aged artillery captain of noble ancestry, Rose-Perrine left home at the age of 13 and took up with an itinerant comedian called Beauménard. She decided to adopt both his name and his calling, and under his auspices she made her debut in 1743 at the...

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