A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Duclos, Marie Anne

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DUCLOS, MARIE ANNE,

A French actress of great merit, was born at Paris, where she died in 1748, aged seventy-eight. She excelled in the representation of queens and princesses. Her maiden name was Chateauneuf; that of Duclos was assumed; she married, in 1730, Duchemin, an actor, from whom she was divorced three years after.