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French theatre actress
Costumes by Mme. Grassot, role of Aménaïde, and Melle. Virginie Goy, role of Julie, in La Cachucha. Théâtre du Vaudeville Du Gymnase (NYPL b19589333-5179618)

Françoise Billiard, known as Madame/Mme Grassot or Fanny Grassot, was a French theatre actress, born in 1810 (some sources say 1811) and died at the Rossini retirement home, rue Mirabeau in Paris, on 23 June 1892 (some sources say 1893).

She performed in traveling troupes then at the Théâtre du Gymnase from 1833. Also cited at the Palais-Royal. In 1868, aged 57, with thirty years in the theatre, she received a pension of 200 francs by the Society of Artists (Société des Artistes).

She married actor Paul Grassot in Paris on 29 May 1852 (some sources say earlier).

Theatre credits include Clara Soleil by Edmond Gondinet and Pierre Sivrac (1885) and La Cachucha by Desvergers, both at Théâtre du Vaudeville, and many more.

Theatre credits

Selected credits listed below.

1892 The Pont-Biquet Family by Alexandre Bisson
1885 Clara Soleil by Edmond Gondinet
1882 A Wedding Paris by Edmond About
1853 A Woman in my Fountain by Théodore Barrière
1848 Agénor the Dangerous by Eugène Labiche
" An English Channel by Eugène Labiche
1846 Mademoiselle My Wife by Auguste Lefranc
1845 The Almanac of 25,000 Addresses by Ferdinand de Villeneuve
1842 The Fantastic Omelette by Louis Boyer
1840 Trianon by Jean-François Bayard
" Bob by Paul Duport
" Day to Fans by Emmanuel Théaulon
1839 Gabrielle by Jacques-François Ancelot
1838 The Grand Daddy Guerin by Laurencin
" La Cachucha by de Desvergers
" Paul Duport's Sister-in-Law
1835 Be Loved or Die! by Eugène Scribe
1834 Pécherel the Empailleur by Félix-Auguste Duvert
" Salvoisy by Eugène Scribe
1833 It is Still the Happiness by Lockroy
" A Mother by Jean-François Bayard
1821 The Little Sister by Eugène Scribe

References

  1. Grassot.
  2. Steer, Linda (2017-07-05). "Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924?939 ". Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-57624-6.
  3. Maison Martinet (Paris, France); Grassot, Fanny; Goy, Virginie (1830-01-01). "Costumes de Mme. Grassot, rôle de Aménaïde, et de Melle. Virginie Goy, rôle de Julie, dans la Cachucha. Vaudeville, Th. du Gymnase". New York Public Library. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  4. "Etablissement MADAME ANNE GRASSOT à PARIS 15 (75015) sur SOCIETE.COM (45210499500017)". www.societe.com. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  5. "Visionneuse - Archives de Paris". archives.paris.fr. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  6. "ISNI 0000000360996439 Belliard, Fanny ( 1811-1893 )". isni.oclc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  7. ^ "Mme Grassot". Les Archives du Spectacle (in French). 23 June 1892. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  8. "Fanny Grassot (1811-1893)". data.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  9. "IdRef - Grassot, Fanny (actress; 1811-1893)".
  10. "Visionneuse - Archives de Paris". archives.paris.fr. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  11. "Id Ref - Grassot, Paul Louis Auguste (1800-1860; actor)".
  12. "II. Scribe at the Théâtre du Vaudeville and at the Théâtre du Gymnase: the Comédies-vaudemlles", Eugène Scribe and the French Theatre, 1815-1860, Harvard University Press, pp. 32–73, 1924-12-31, doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674280168.c2, ISBN 978-0-674-28016-8, retrieved 2021-03-05

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