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Adrienne Lecouvreur, lithograph by C. Motte after a drawing by P. Vigneron
Adrienne Lecouvreur, lithograph by C. Motte after a drawing by P. Vigneron

Adrienne Lecouvreur

French actor
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April 5, 1692, Damery, Fr.
Died:
March 20, 1730, Paris (aged 37)
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Adrienne Lecouvreur (born April 5, 1692, Damery, Fr.—died March 20, 1730, Paris) was a leading French actress whose life inspired a tragic drama a century after her death. At the age of 14 she participated in an amateur performance of Pierre Corneille’s Polyeucte. She then received instruction in acting from the actor-manager Paul Legrand and as a professional actress was first seen on the stage at Lille. On May 14, 1717, she made her debut at the Comédie-Française in Prosper Jolyot Crébillon’s Électre. To this role, to the Monime in Jean Racine’s Mithridate, and to the Angélique in Molière’s George ...(100 of 236 words)

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