Gosselin, Constance Hippolyte
(*1793)> BALLERINA
Gosselin, Constance Hippolyte (1793; ?), ballerina, also called Mme Anatole, was entrusted to the care of Duport and Jean-François Coulon at age nine after the death of her elder sister. She was trained for the ballet by her guardians and made her debut in a revival of Vertumne et Pomone on 4 January 1810. She appeared next in Sacchini’s Sophocle on 2 December 1810, and these two bookings were followed by a third part in the third act of La Jérusalem délivrée (1811) by Persuis. She married…