Louise Franqoise Contat

Background

Louise Contat was born on June 16, 1760 in Paris.

Career

Louise Contat made her dSbut at the Comedie Franjaise in 1766 as Atalide in Bajazet. It was in comedy, however, that she made her first success, as Suzanne in Beaumarchais's Mariage de Figaro', and in several minor character parts, which she raised to the first importance, and as the soubrette in the plays of Moliere and Marivaux, she found opportunities exactly fitted to her talents. She retired in 1809.

Connections

Louise Contat married de Parny, nephew of the poet.

Sister:

Marie

Her sister Marie fimilie Contat (1769 - 1846), an admirable soubrette, especially as the pert servant drawn by Moliere and de Regnard, made her debut in 1784, and retired in 1815.