Marie Champmeslé 18 February 1642 – 15 May 1698) was a French stage actress.
Marie Champmeslé 18 February 1642 – 15 May 1698) was a French stage actress . La Champmeslé, tragedian from Rouen The Rouen people know the rue de la Champmeslé well, which opens into the rue du Gros-Horloge and goes down towards the Seine. But how many know who this Champmeslé was? In the "Mercure Galant" of May 1698, a weekly newspaper of information, one can read " It is glorious enough for those who embrace a profession to distinguish themselves enough there to make their name known by all the earth. This is what happened to Mademoiselle de Champmeslé who has just died… ” La Champmeslé is actually called Marie DESMARES. She was born in ROUEN, Saint-Paul parish, on February 18, 1642. After the death of her father, Guillaume DESMARES, in 1753, probably victim of the plague epidemic, her mother, Marie, remarried with Antoine Laguerault, fat landowner of Eauplet, territory of the commune of Bonsecours (Seine-Maritime) which gave her daughter-in-law a basic...