Marie Desbrosses

Marie-Françoise Desbrosses (8 March 1764 – 3 March 1856), was a French operatic mezzo-soprano. She made her stage debut at the Comédie-Italienne in 1776, at age 13, and remained with the company for almost five decades, creating several roles. and Marie-Françoise Petitjean, and the elder sister of .

At the age of six she performed couplets in front of Louis XV, accompanied by Madame Dugazon's brother, Joseph Lefebvre, a violinist. at the Comédie-Italienne, , in the role of Justine in Le Sorcier and Colinette in the operetta Clochette. She had success in Boieldieu's La Fête du village voisin, La jeune Femme colère and La dame blanche, in Nicolas Isouard's Lully et Quinault, Mehul's La journée aux aventures, and especially in Rodolphe Kreutzer's Jadis et aujourd'hui, Louis-Emmanuel Jadin's Fanfan et Colas, Pierre Gaveaux's Le traité nul, Le Sueur's La caverne and Boieldieu's Ma tante Aurore.

Desbrosses gave her "final" performance in 1823; but at the urging of the authorities, and encouraged by the solicitations of her comrades, she determined to prolong her dramatic career for another six years, until 1829, when she definitively left the theatre, 1793: Le Sueur: La caverne, 1816: Boieldieu's La Fete , 5 March premiered at the Opéra-Comique (salle Feydeau), 16 November 1819: Inn-keeper in Daniel Auber's Le testament et les billets doux, 18 September 1823: Gouvernante in Auber's , 8 October

Private life Desbrosses had a relationship with a banker, Alexandre-Henri Tassin de Moulaine, with whom she had a daughter, Adéle-Charlotte-Henriette Tassin de Moulaine, born in 1790.

In 1791, she became the godmother of the son of Joseph Fiévée and his colleague at the Comédie italienne, Adélaïde Françoise Guignard, known as Mademoiselle Lescot