QUINAULT, Marie Anne
(1692–1793)> SINGER · COMPOSER
QUINAULT, Marie Anne French singer and composer. France, 1692; 1793. She studied music under her father and made her debut at the Opera in 1709. In 1715 she joined the Comedie Française, from which she retired in 1722. She became the mistress of the Duke of Orleans and then of the former Duke of Nivernais. Through the favour of these influential figures she received a pension from the king and lodging at the Louvre in the Pavilion de l’infante, which she maintained for 60 years. A number of her…