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Anne Victoire Dervieux

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Anne Victoire Dervieux
Born1752
Died1826 (1827) (aged 74)
Paris
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Ballerina, opera singer and courtesan
SpouseFrançois-Joseph Bélanger

Anne Victoire Dervieux (1752-1826)[1] was a French ballerina, opera singer, and courtesan.[1][2]

Life

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Dervieux was the daughter of a washer woman in Paris.[3]

Stage career

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b c Blanc 1997, pp. 105–118.
  2. ^ "anne victoire dervieux – Ballet". ballet.blogberth.com. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Goodman & Norberg 2007, p. 98.
  4. ^ de Laborde, Jean-Benjamin. "Zénis et Almasie". operabaroque.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  5. ^ Jenkins 2010.
  6. ^ a b Eerdmans, Emily Evans (25 July 2010). "The House that Pleasure Built". Emily Evans Eerdmans. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  7. ^ a b c "DERVIEUX Anne Victoire (1752-1829)". www.appl-lachaise.net (in French). 21 January 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  8. ^ Baxter & Martin 2017, p. 111.
  9. ^ de Duras 1801.

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Further reading

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