Marie Allard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marie Allard

French dancer

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1742

Place of Birth: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 14-Jan-1802

Profession: actor, ballet dancer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Marie Allard

  • Marie Allard (1742–1802) was a French ballerina.
  • She debuted in the Paris Opera in 1761. Marie Allard was born in 1742 to a poor family in Marseille.
  • At the age of 10, she was offered to a Monsieur V.
  • and the Comédie de Marseille.
  • Her mother died two years later and Marie became a première danseuse (first dancer) of the Lyon opera.
  • By the age of 14, she was employed at the Comédie-Française and lived in a small apartment in Paris.
  • Shortly after beginning her studies with balletmaster Gaétan Vestris, she became his lover.
  • In 1760 she gave birth to a son, Auguste Vestris.In June 1761 Allard made her debut at the Paris Opera in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Zaïs.
  • The audience and the young rakes Duc de Mazarin and Monsieur de Bontems were quite taken with her.
  • In her first decade at the Paris Opera she danced 35 roles and received commendation for her pas de deux with Jean Dauberval in Sylvie.
  • Allard and Vestris also taught dance to their son, who would become the leading male dancer of his generation.
  • At one point, Allard's contract was suspended temporarily "on the ground that her deplorable habit of producing two children every eighteen months caused her to be constantly in a condition which was destructive of all stage effect." Her career started to decline as her son rose to fame and the committee asked her to retire in 1781.Allard died from a stroke in 1802.

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