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She is shown in the costume worn for the role of La Vieille in Egidio Duni's <i>Le Fée Urgele</i> a play in which she created the role of the heroine. \n\nThe daughter of two musicians for the deposed King of Poland Stanislas Leszcynski whose court at Lunéville became famous as a cultural centre, Justine Duronceray was educated in dance, music and literature, and performed under the stage name Mlle Chantilly in 1744 at the Saint-Laurent Fair, Paris dancing the role of Laurence in<i> Les Fêtes Publiques</i>. In 1745 she married the theatre director Charles-Simon Favart who between 1746 and 1748 set up a company at the Théâtre de la Monnaie de Bruxelles where she became a success dancing in works created by her husband.  \r\n\r\nOn their return to Paris in 1749 she abandoned dancing in favour of acting at the Comédie Italienne, but was confined in a convent in 1750 after becoming the mistress of Maurice, Comte de Saxe, a Marshal of France and her husband’s patron. She returned to the stage after the death of the Marshal and became a great favourite at the Comedie Italienne where she was an advocate of realism in stage costume. Her life was fictionalised in Offenbach’s 1878 comic opera <i>Madame Favart</i>.\r\n\r\nOne of a collection of 26 theatrical lithographs. The lithographer is not named but all the lithographs appear to have been published by Robert Sayer, London (1772).","physicalDescription":"Printed in the centre of the page this full length lithograph shows a young woman, assuming the posture and mannerisms of an elderly lady. 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