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DUGAZON [JEAN HENRI GOURGAUD] (1746-1809) , French actor, was born in Marseilles
refuge
character , performed at the Theatre de la Republique. He married, in 1776, Louis Rose Lefevre, but was soon divorced and then married again. The first Madame Dugazon (1755-1821), the daughter of a Berlin dancing master, was a charming actress. Her first appearance on the stage was made at the age of twelve as a dancer. It was as an actress " with songs " that she made her debut at the Comedie Italienne in 1774 in Gretry's Sylvain. She was at once admitted pensionnaire and in 1776 societaire. Madame Dugazon delighted all Paris, and nightly crowded the Comedie Italienne for more than twenty years. The two kinds of parts with which she was especially identifiedyoung mothers and women past their first youthare still called "dugazons" and "metes dugazons." Examples of the first are Jenny in La Dame blanche
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Dugazon's sister
Stuttgart
Vestris , the dancer. Under the protection
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