Mademoiselle Luzy
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Dorothée Dorinville, stage name Mademoiselle Luzy (1747–1830), was a French stage actress.[1]
She was engaged at the Comédie-Française in 1764. She became a Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française in 1764. She retired in 1781.
She was most known as a soubrette, but also performed tragedy, and acted as a singer and dancer. She was described as a serious and ambitious stage artist, and was a part of the movement that wished to introduce realistic stage costumes. She was imprisoned in 1771 after having broken the censure laws in a play by Imbert.
References
[edit]- ^ Émile Campardon, Les Comédiens du roi de la troupe française pendant les deux derniers siècles, Paris, H. Champion, 1879
External links
[edit]- Mademoiselle Luzy, Comédie-Française