The Hus family was an 18th-century French dynasty of ballet dancers and actors.
The Hus brothers
The ''Frères Hus'' were two family members who collaborated between 1720 and 1750 to direct an acting company touring France and the
Austrian Netherlands
The Austrian Netherlands nl, Oostenrijkse Nederlanden; french: Pays-Bas Autrichiens; german: Österreichische Niederlande; la, Belgium Austriacum. was the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The p ...
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François Hus
François Hus was an 18th-century French comedian and head of troupe born 7 September 1695 in Marseille and died before 1774.
Family
The son of Jérôme Hus and Marguerite Pageot, called Desforges, he was the eldest member of the Hus family an ...
and
Barthélemy Hus-Desforges
Barthélemy Hus, called Hus-Desforges (18 July 1699 in Bordeaux – 1 September 1786 in Lyon, aged 63) was an 18th-century French comedian and troupe leader.
The son of Jérôme Hus and Marguerite Pageot, called Desforges, he was the youngest mem ...
led their company around towns in southern France (
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
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Avignon
Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So ...
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Montpellier
Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...
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Perpignan
Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...
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Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...
and
Bordeaux), the
Rhône valley (
Lyon,
Chambéry and
Grenoble),
Brittany,
Normandy (
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
,
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
,
Le Havre and
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
), northern France (
Douai) and what is now Belgium
Ghent and
Brussels).
Family tree
François Hus
François Hus was an 18th-century French comedian and head of troupe born 7 September 1695 in Marseille and died before 1774.
Family
The son of Jérôme Hus and Marguerite Pageot, called Desforges, he was the eldest member of the Hus family an ...
and
Françoise Gravillon had the following children:
*Adélaïde-Louise-Pauline Hus (31 March 1734, Rennes - 18 October 1805, Paris), stage name ''
Mademoiselle Hus
Mademoiselle (abbreviated as ''Mlle'' or ''M'') may refer to:
* Mademoiselle (title), the French-language equivalent of the title "miss"
Film and television
* ''Mademoiselle'' (1966 film), a French-British drama directed by Tony Richardson
* ' ...
'', French actress
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Jean-Baptiste Hus, ballet dancer
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French ballet dancers
French families
Entertainers of the Austrian Netherlands
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