Antier, Marie (1687, Lyon; 3 December 1747, Paris), singer, arrived in Paris in about 1710 and made her debut at the Royal Academy of Music almost immediately. She was applauded enthusiastically from the start of her career, which lasted for thirty years, and there was scarcely an important work in the entire repertory of the Opéra in which she did not play a rôle at one time or another. Tradition repeats that she was especially effective when she was representing the enchantress or magician in…