Louis Deseschaliers (1663,
Montils
Montils () is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. The 17th–18th actor Louis Deseschaliers was born in Montils.
Geography
The Seugne flows north-northwest through the western part of the commune.
Population
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[The act of marriage November 25, 1689 in Rouen states he was from the Saint-Pierre de Montils parish, diocese of ]La Rochelle
La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle''; oc, La Rochèla ) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. With ...
. – after 1713) was a French actor.
An actor in
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 ...
en 1689, he married Catherine Dudard, an actress born in Paris in 1666. The couple ran the theatre of Lille from 1695 to June 1699, played in Tournai in February 1699 and in Warsaw in 1700 for six months. In Paris, the actor recruited for The Hague, where he became co-director of the theatre with
Jean-Jacques Quesnot de La Chênée from 1701. He still played in
Mons
Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...
in 1705.
He retained the theater management in The Hague until 1713, after ousting his co-director and competitor, then finally we lost track of him.
References
Bibliography
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Jean-Jacques Quesnot de La Chênée: ''L'Opéra de La Haye. Histoire instructive et galante'', Cologne, Héritiers de Pierre Le Sincère, 1706. Imprimé sous l'anonyme
Read online.
* J. Fransen
''Les Comédiens français en Hollande au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle'' Paris, Champion, 1925.
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French male stage actors
17th-century French male actors
18th-century French male actors
French theatre managers and producers
1663 births
Year of death missing