Maillard, Marie-Thérèse Davoux (6 January 1766, Paris; 16 October 1818, Paris), singer, received her first music lessons as a child at the school run by the elder Corarette and his son, but she favored dancing over singing at first, and she was admitted to the Opéra-Comique at age 12 to dance in works produced at this theatre. The public was enthusiastic about her performances, and she received an invitation before long to go to Saint Petersburg. When Mlle Maillard returned to Paris in 1780…