Anne Victoire Dervieux
Anne Victoire Dervieux | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1752 |
| Died | 1826 (aged 74) Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Ballerina, opera singer and courtesan |
| Spouse | François-Joseph Bélanger |
Anne Victoire Dervieux (1752-1826)[1] was a French ballerina, opera singer, and courtesan.[1][2]
Life
[edit]Dervieux was the daughter of a washer woman in Paris.[3]
Stage career
[edit]She was engaged at the Paris Opera in 1765, (aged 13),[4] where she was active as a ballet dancer before she retrained to become an opera singer.[5] As a singer, she performed at the Concert Spirituel, and her greatest triumph was said to have been her performance in Pygmalion in 1772.
Courtesan
[edit]She attracted much fame for her parallel career as a courtesan. She has been referred to as the rival of Madeleine Guimard. Among her clients where Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti[3] and the brothers of Louis XVI, the count of Artois[3][6] and the count de Provence;[3] she also shared her client Charles, Prince of Soubise[7] with Madeleine Guimard.[3] Derievux, as well as Guimard, were celebrities of their time and frequently portrayed in the scandal press.[3]
Residence
[edit]She became known for her extravagant residence, a palace she had constructed in rue Chantereine Paris, filled with her valuable fine art collections. The building was originally designed by architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart and later re-worked by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger[1]
Later life
[edit]Dervieux married François-Joseph Bélanger[6] in 1794[7] and retired from her stage career as well as from her career as a courtesan. She adopted a girl around this time.[8] She was imprisoned during The Terror of Robespierre,[9] but avoided execution. Dervieux died in Paris in 1829.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Blanc 1997, pp. 105–118.
- ^ "anne victoire dervieux – Ballet". ballet.blogberth.com. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Goodman & Norberg 2007, p. 98.
- ^ de Laborde, Jean-Benjamin. "Zénis et Almasie". operabaroque.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Jenkins 2010.
- ^ a b Eerdmans, Emily Evans (25 July 2010). "The House that Pleasure Built". Emily Evans Eerdmans. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ a b c "DERVIEUX Anne Victoire (1752-1829)". www.appl-lachaise.net (in French). 21 January 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Baxter & Martin 2017, p. 111.
- ^ de Duras 1801.
Bibliography
[edit]- Baxter, Denise Amy; Martin, Meredith S. (2017). Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors. Routledge. ISBN 9781351576079.
- Blanc, Olivier (1997). Les libertines: Plaisir et liberté au temps des lumières (in French). Perrin. ISBN 9782262011826.
- de Duras, Louise-Charlotte (1801). "Prison Life During The French Revolution". Prison Journals During the French Revolution by Duras. Translated by Carey, Martha Ward. Project Gutenberg.
- Goodman, Dena; Norberg, Kathryn (2007). Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415949538.
- Jenkins, Jessica Kerwin (2010). Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780385533652.
Further reading
[edit]- Baschet, Roger (1943). Mademoiselle Dervieux, fille d'opéra: illustré de huit planches hors-textes (in French). Flammarion.
- Homans, Jennifer (2013). Apollo's Angels: A History Of Ballet. Granta Publications. ISBN 9781847084545.
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