Vestris, Marie-Françoise-Thérèse
(1726–1808)> DANCER
Vestris, Marie-Françoise-Thérèse (1726, Florence; 1808, Paris), dancer, arrived with her family in the French capital during 1747, and she was not long in finding a place in the ballet of the Opéra for two reasons: her brothers, Gaetano and Angiolo, danced at the Royal Academy of Music; the roster of her lovers included the ballet master at the Opéra, the famous singer Jélyotte, Mme de Pompadour’s husband, the duke d’Orleans, and a host of others notables and nobles. Unfortunately, she is…