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. While in the service of the

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's private music troupe, she was recruited by

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and

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of the

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and became first soprano in the troupe of Jean-Baptiste Lully, creating for him roles in the following operas: Oriane in '' Amadis de Gaule'', Sangaride in '' Atys'', Philonoé in '' Bellérophon'', Io in ''

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'', Andromède in ''

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'', and the title role in '' Proserpine'', Aeglé in ''

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''. She and her brother Sébastien were supposedly implicated in the so-called assassination attempt of Lully by her lover Henri Guichard in 1675. Described as small, with white skin and black hair, she retired from the stage in 1684, because of

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such that she could no longer walk.

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''L'opéra baroque, les chanteurs de Lully''
Jean-Claude Brenac. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aubry, Marie 1656 births 1704 deaths French operatic sopranos Place of birth missing 17th-century French women opera singers