Louis Stanislas Montjoie

Louis-Stanislas Montjoie (17891865) was an 18th-century French ballet dancer and actor who performed in opéra-ballets at the Opéra de Paris.

Early life Named after Louis XVIII, Louis-Stanislas Montjoie (or Montjoye) was born in Paris, France in 1789.

Entertainment life Louis-Stanislas Montjoie studied in Paris and was a pupil of Jean-François Coulon. Montjoie, wearing an Arabian costume, performed in the ballet Aladin, ou La lampe merveilleuse on 1822. He performed as Saint Phar in Jean Aumer's Aline, reine de Golconde, a ballet premiered on 1 October, 1823 with music by Gustave Dugazon. On 20 June 1832, he danced as Astaroth, King of the Demons in Fromental Halévy's opera La tentation. He performed at the Opéra as Ackbar in the 1835 ballet-pantomime L'île des pirates.

In 1837, he starred as a nobleman and friend of the Duke in Clary, a Pantomime Ballet presented in three acts at the Académie royale de musique. That year, he retired.

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