Marie-Magdeleine-Claudine Chevalier-Perrin (1767–1849), stage name Madame Thénard, was a French stage actress.[1]
Madame Thénard | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Madame Thénard by Louis-Basile de Veaucorbeille | |
| Born | Marie-Magdeleine-Claudine Chevalier-Perrin 1767 |
| Died | 1849 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Actress |
Perrin was a singer for the Opéra Comique of Marseille, where she was discovered by the actor Préville. She then joined the Comédie Française in 1781 at the age of 24. She was imprisoned during the French Reign of Terror, but was not executed due to a pregnancy. After the Thermidorian Reaction, she was freed. She later traveled to Germany as an actress in Napoleon's Comédiens de l'Empereur.[2]
In 1837, she donated a portrait Adèle Romany had painted of her in the role of Hermione from Andromaque to the Comédie Française.[2]
References
edit- ^ Émile Campardon, Les Comédiens du roi de la troupe française pendant les deux derniers siècles, Paris, H. Champion, 1879.
- ^ a b Coman, Sonia (2018). "A Community of Women Artists and Actresses at the End of the Ancien Régime: The Portrait of Madame Thénard mère in Hermione by Adèle Romany". S&F Online. 15 (1) – via LGBTQ+ Source.
External links
edit- "Thénard, Marie-Magdeleine-Claudine Chevalier-Perrin, dite Mme", Comédie-Française
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