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BELLECOUR (1725-1778)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 696 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BELLECOUR (1725-1778) , French actor, whose real name was
JEAN
  CLAUDE GILLES COLSON, was born on the 16th of January 1725, the son of a portrait-painter. He showed decided artistic talent, but soon deserted the brush for the stage under the name of
Bellecour
 . After playing in the provinces he was called to the Comedie Frangaise, but his debut, on the 21st of December 1750, as Achilles in Iphigenie was not a
great
  success. He soon turned to more congenial comedy roles, which for thirty years he filled with
great
  credit. He was a very natural player, and his willingness to give others on the stage an opportunity to show their talents made him extremely popular. He wrote a successful play, Fausses apparences (1761), and was very useful to the Comedie Frangaise in editing and adapting the plays of others. He died on the rgth of November 1778
His wife, ROSE PERRINE LE Roy DE LA CORBINAYE, was born at Lamballe on the loth of December 1730, the daughter of an artillery officer. Under the stage name of Beaumenard she made her first Paris
appearance
  in 1743 as Gogo in Favart's Le Coq du
village
 . After a year at the Opera Comique she played in several companies, including that of
Marshal
  Saxe, who is said to have been not insensible to her charms. In 1749 she made her debut at the Comedie Frangaise as Dorine in Tartuffe, and her success was immediate. She retired in 1756, but after an
absence
  of five years, during which she married, she reappeared as Madame
Bellecour
 , and continued her successes in soubrette parts in the plays of Moliere and de Regnard. She retired finally at the age of sixty, but troublous times had put an end to the pension which she received from Louis XVI. and from the theatre, and she died in abject poverty on the 5th of August 1799. There is a charming portrait of her owned by the Theatre Francais.


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