Mademoiselle Anaïs

Anaïs Pauline Nathalie Aubert, known as Mademoiselle Anaïs (1802 – 1871) was a French actress.

Biography

Anaïs was born in Toury, Eure-et-Loir, and entered the Comédie-Française in 1816 at the age of just fourteen. In 1832 she was chosen to be the 252nd Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.[1]

She distinguished herself particularly in ingénue parts, becoming famous in the roles of Chérubin in The Marriage of Figaro and Agnès in The School for Wives.[2]

She had an affair with a British Army general and Member of Parliament, Sir Edward Stopford, resulting in the birth in 1819 of a son who also became a British Army general, Edward Stopford Claremont.[3]

She resigned from the Comédie-Française in 1851 and died in 1871, aged 69, at Louveciennes.

References

  1. ↑ ANAIS Anaïs-Pauline-Nathalie Aubert, dite Mlle, Comédie-Française (in French)
  2. ↑ Anais in Enciclopedia Italiana (1929) (in Italian)
  3. ↑ Anais Pauline Nathalie Aubert, powys.org

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