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MADEMOISELLE CLAIRON. [franco
career. She attached considerable importance to what
had passed ; her colleagues laughed at her, but she
still adhered to her resolution. An income of 10001.
a year, an intimacy with several ladies of quality, and
a rich and amiable lover, were no doubt objects of
consolation under her disgrace; but she lost almost
at the same time her protector and her fortune. The
Margrave of Anspach then invited her into his do-
minions, from whence she was afterwards dismissed.
On her return to Paris she lived in obscurity, and
died on the thirty-first of January 1803, at the age
of 84.
Mademoiselle Clairon carried to a ridiculous ex-
tent the high opinion which she entertained of her
talents, and never spoke to her friends, or her at-
tendants, but in the tone of a theatrical princess.
The stage is, however, indebted to her for many use-
ful regulaiions. She was the first actress who rigidly
observed in her attire the costume suitable to persons
and io ages; she also cleared the stage of a crowd
of impertinent spectators with whom it was formerly
filled.
Mademoiselle Clairon published some memoirs in
the year 1798, containing several judicious precepts
on the dramatic art, intermixed with an abundance of
self-love, and a belief in the existence of apparitions;
excited no doubt by the flattery and cunning of her
companions.
career. She attached considerable importance to what
had passed ; her colleagues laughed at her, but she
still adhered to her resolution. An income of 10001.
a year, an intimacy with several ladies of quality, and
a rich and amiable lover, were no doubt objects of
consolation under her disgrace; but she lost almost
at the same time her protector and her fortune. The
Margrave of Anspach then invited her into his do-
minions, from whence she was afterwards dismissed.
On her return to Paris she lived in obscurity, and
died on the thirty-first of January 1803, at the age
of 84.
Mademoiselle Clairon carried to a ridiculous ex-
tent the high opinion which she entertained of her
talents, and never spoke to her friends, or her at-
tendants, but in the tone of a theatrical princess.
The stage is, however, indebted to her for many use-
ful regulaiions. She was the first actress who rigidly
observed in her attire the costume suitable to persons
and io ages; she also cleared the stage of a crowd
of impertinent spectators with whom it was formerly
filled.
Mademoiselle Clairon published some memoirs in
the year 1798, containing several judicious precepts
on the dramatic art, intermixed with an abundance of
self-love, and a belief in the existence of apparitions;
excited no doubt by the flattery and cunning of her
companions.