Albany Debriège

Louise Albanie Rivière, known as Albany Debriège, (born August 13, 1862, Toulouse - died 16 March 1936, Paris) was a French singer, dancer, theater and cinema actress. She is known for numerous roles, at Nouveautés, at Variétés, at Menus-Plaisirs, at La Cigale, at La Scala de Paris, at the Café des Ambassadeurs.

Biography Albany Debriège comes from a family of artists. Her father, Auguste Rivière, was the official singer at the court of King Louis-Philippe; her brother, Théodore Rivière, was a sculptor. She had an older sister, Louise Françoise Gabrielle Rivière (1860–1931).

During her career, Debriège traveled all over the world: to Cairo, to Alexandria at the Kédivial Theater, to Germany, to Brazil, to Barcelona, to Romania (1904) and to Russia during the Russian Revolution.

She was courted by notable figures in Parisian life such as Jules de Glouvet. It figured prominently in the series of illustrated booklets entitled Les Reines de Paris chez chez nous in 1898 which showed a blurred border between cabarets and demi-monde.

Private life She married Edouard Jean Baptiste Guercin on June 24, 1880, in Toulouse and they divorced in Marseille on March 7, 1889.