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Jeanne Olivier

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Mademoiselle Olivier as Chérubin in Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro

Jeanne-Adélaïde Gérardin (1764–1787), stage name Jeanne Olivier, was a French stage actress.[1]

She was engaged at the Comédie-Française in 1780. She became a Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française in 1781.

She had a successful career at the theatre where she was a star attraction and created seventeen celebrated ingénue-roles during her career there.

References

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  1. ^ Émile Campardon, Les Comédiens du roi de la troupe française pendant les deux derniers siècles, Paris, H. Champion, 1879
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