Duval, Mlle

Duval, Mlle (?; 1769, Paris) composed the music for the ballet entitled Les Génies that was billed at the Palais-Royal in 1736. Fétis asserts that she was “an actress” at the Opéra during the regency, but she was probably the danseuse appearing under this same name in the ballet of the abbé Pellegrin’s Polydore of 1720 (see seventeenth-century volume for Pellegrin). Fétis must have thought that she was a vocalist because she published a treatise on the art of singing in 1741. It is possible…