Aubry, Marie
(†1704)> SINGER
Aubry, Marie (?; 1704, Paris), singer, was a member of Philippe d’Orléans’s private musical staff, and her first stage appearance was in Cambert’s Les Peines et les plaisirs de l’amour. She was obviously talented and Lully retained her as a member of his troupe when he was organizing the Royal Academy of Music. She retired from the stage in 1684 after having figured prominently during the first decade of public opera in France. Tradition records that she withdrew from the theatre not on account…