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Desbordes-Valmore appeared as an actress and singer in Douai, Rouen, the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, where she notably played Rosine in Beaumarchais's Le Barbier de Séville. She retired from the stage in 1823.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (born June 30, 1786, Douai, Fr.—died July 23, 1859, Paris) was a French poet and woman of letters of the Romantic period. Her family was ruined by the French Revolution and moved to the French colony of Guadeloupe.
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Contemporaine de la Révolution française, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore embrasse la liberté dans une multitude de voix, dans une multitude de « je », dans l'affirmation de son identité de femme et des femmes, dans le dialogue avec les siens.
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In 1819, two years after they were married, she published her first book of poems, Elegies, Marie et Romances. The forms and style of her early poems are conventional–she is limited by what is expected of women. The religion she expresses is the Christianity that advises women to be resigned.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was born at Douai to a family where her father was an armorial painter but whose livelihood was destroyed by the revolution and who thereupon sought poorly paid work as an innkeeper. At age 15, Marceline left France for Guadeloupe in the forlorn hope of financial assistance from an elder cousin.
Romantic French poet and singer. Name variations: Marcelline; Marceline Valmore. Born Marceline Félicité Josèphe Desbordes at Douai, France, on June 20, 1785 (some sources cite 1786); died on July 23, 1859; daughter of a poor artisan; married François Prosper Lanchantin (an actor known as Valmore), in 1817; children: (with Henri Latouche ...
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (June 20, 1786 – July 23, 1859) was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore.
