Madame Grassot
French theatre actress
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Françoise Billiard, known as Madame/Mme Grassot or Fanny Grassot,[1][2] was a French theatre actress,[3][4] born in 1810 (some sources say 1811) and died at the Rossini retirement home, rue Mirabeau in Paris, on 23 June 1892 (some sources say 1893).[5][6][7][8]
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She performed in traveling troupes then at the Théâtre du Gymnase from 1833. Also cited at the Palais-Royal. In 1868, aged 57, with thirty years in the theatre, she received a pension of 200 francs by the Society of Artists (Société des Artistes).[9]
She married actor Paul Grassot in Paris on 29 May 1852[10] (some sources say earlier).[11]
Theatre credits include Clara Soleil by Edmond Gondinet and Pierre Sivrac (1885) and La Cachucha by Desvergers, both at Théâtre du Vaudeville, and many more.[7][12]
Theatre credits
Selected credits listed below.[7]
| 1892 | The Pont-Biquet Family by Alexandre Bisson |
| 1885 | Clara Soleil by Edmond Gondinet |
| 1882 | A Wedding Paris by Edmond About |
| 1853 | A Woman in my Fountain by Théodore Barrière |
| 1848 | Agénor the Dangerous by Eugène Labiche |
| " | An English Channel by Eugène Labiche |
| 1846 | Mademoiselle My Wife by Auguste Lefranc |
| 1845 | The Almanac of 25,000 Addresses by Ferdinand de Villeneuve |
| 1842 | The Fantastic Omelette by Louis Boyer |
| 1840 | Trianon by Jean-François Bayard |
| " | Bob by Paul Duport |
| " | Day to Fans by Emmanuel Théaulon |
| 1839 | Gabrielle by Jacques-François Ancelot |
| 1838 | The Grand Daddy Guerin by Laurencin |
| " | La Cachucha by de Desvergers |
| " | Paul Duport's Sister-in-Law |
| 1835 | Be Loved or Die! by Eugène Scribe |
| 1834 | Pécherel the Empailleur by Félix-Auguste Duvert |
| " | Salvoisy by Eugène Scribe |
| 1833 | It is Still the Happiness by Lockroy |
| " | A Mother by Jean-François Bayard |
| 1821 | The Little Sister by Eugène Scribe |