Louise Françoise Contat
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Louise Françoise Contat (1760 - 1813) was a French actress.
She made her debut at the Comédie Française in 1766 as Atalide in Bajazet. It was in comedy, however, that she made her first success, as Suzanne in Beaumarchais's Mariage de Figaro; and in several minor character parts, which she raised to the first importance, and as the soubrette in the plays of Molière and Pierre de Marivaux, she found opportunities exactly fitted to her talents.
She retired in 1809 and married de Parny, nephew of the poet Évariste de Forges de Parny.
Her sister Marie Emilie Contat (1769-1846), an admirable soubrette, especially as the pert servant drawn by Molière and de Regnard, made her debut in 1784, and retired, in 1815.
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