Marie-Thérèse de Subligny

Subligny, Adrien Perdou de (1639-96). French dramatist and novelist. His works include La Folle Querelle (1668), which combines both parody and more substantial criticism of Andromaque, and a Dissertation sur la tragédie de Phèdre (1677). His La Fausse Clélie (1670), written in the satirical tradition of Cervantes and Sorel, has moments of insight into the dynamics of character which anticipate Challe's Illustres Françaises.

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Marie-Thérèse Perdou de Subligny (1666 – 1735) was a French ballerina. She entered the l'Académie Royale de Musique in 1688, where she succeeded Mlle La Fontaine as prima ballerina, a position she held until 1707. She appeared mostly in opera ballets of Jean-Baptiste Lully and André Campra. She was the first professional ballerina to appear in England (1702-3). She was seen as one of the Queens of ballet.

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