Mademoiselle Mars

Background

Mademoiselle Mars was born on February 9, 1779, in Paris, the natural daughter of Jacques Marie Boutet and Jeanne-Marie Salvetat.

Career

Mademoiselle Mars began her stage career in children's parts, and by 1799, after the rehabilitation of the Comédie-Française, she and her elder half-sister joined that company, of which she remained an active member for 33 years.

Besides many comedy roles of the older repertoire, she created fully a hundred parts in plays which owed success largely to her. She also helped educate foreign actors, among them the Swedish actors Charlotta Eriksson and Emilie Högquist. For her farewell performance she selected Elmire in Tartuffe, and Silvia in Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, two of her most popular roles; and for her benefit, a few days after, Climène in Le Misanthrope and Araminthe in Les Femmes savantes.

Mademoiselle Mars retired following 1841 and died on March 20, 1847.

Achievements

• Mademoiselle Mars was a distinguished actress, who acted on the stage of the Comédie-Française for 33 years.

Connections

By her liaison with a Swiss-born French soldier, Nicolas Bronner, she had three children: a son, who died at birth; Louis-Alphonse and a daughter, Hippolyte.

Father:

Jacques Marie Boutet

Jacques Marie Boutet was a French actor and comic playwright from Lunéville.

Mother:

Jeanne-Marie Salvetat

gallant:

Nicolas Bronner

Daughter:

Hippolyte Bronner

Son:

Louis-Alphonse Bronner