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| Born | Anne Françoise Hyppolyte Boutet Salvetat (1779-02-09)9 February 1779 Paris |
| Died | 20 March 1847(1847-03-20) (aged 68) |
| Nationality | French |
| Children | 2 |
Mademoiselle Mars (pseudonym ofAnne Françoise Hyppolyte Boutet Salvetat; 9 February 1779 – 20 March 1847), French actress, was born in Paris, the natural daughter of the actor-author namedMonvel (Jacques Marie Boutet) (1745–1812) and Jeanne-Marie Salvetat (1748–1838), an actress known as Madame Mars, whose southern accent had made her Paris debut a failure.
Mlle Mars began her stage career in children's parts, and by 1799, after the rehabilitation of theComédie-Française, she and her elder half-sister (Marie-Louise-Geneviève Salvetat, called Louise and known professionally as Mlle Marsaînée) joined that company, of which she remained an active member for 33 years. Her beauty and talents soon placed her at the top of her profession.
She was incomparable in ingenue parts, and equally charming as the coquette.Molière,Marivaux,Michel-Jean Sedaine, andPierre Beaumarchais had no more accomplished interpreter, and in her career of half a century, besides many comedy roles of the older repertoire, she created fully a hundred parts in plays which owed success largely to her. She also helped educate foreign actors, among them the Swedish actorsCharlotta Eriksson andEmilie Högquist. For her farewell performance she selected Elmire inTartuffe, and Silvia inJeu de l'amour et du hasard, two of her most popular roles; and for her benefit, a few days after, Climène inLe Misanthrope and Araminthe inLes Femmes savantes.
By her liaison with a Swiss-born French soldier, Nicolas Bronner (1773–1816), she had three children: a son, who died at birth; Louis-Alphonse (born 14 March 1799), and a daughter, Hippolyte (1800-31 March 1820).
Mademoiselle Mars retired following 1841 and died in Paris on 20 March 1847. She and her children are buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery; sharing the tomb is the body of her niece, an actress known as Georgina Mars (died 1828).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mars, Mlle".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 760.
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