Branchu, Rose-Timoléone-Caroline de Lavit (2 November 1780, Saint-Domingo; 14 October 1850, Passy), vocalist, left the Antilles as a young girl and entered the Conservatoire in Paris to study voice under Garat and Dugazon. After distinguishing herself as a student, she married the dancer Branchu and made her debut at the Opéra about the turn of the century. She appeared in the premiere of Flaminius à Corinthe on 28 February 1801, but this composition by Pixérécourt was a failure. It was not…