Christine Antoinette Charlotte Desmares (1682 â€" 12 September 1753)
was a French female actor. She was known as la Desmares and also
nicknamed Lolotte. She was the elder sister of the actor la
Dangeville.She was born in Copenhagen to the comic actors Nicolas
Desmares and Anne d'Ennebault and trained under her aunt la
Champmeslé. She made her stage début aged sixteen with the
Comédie-Française company on 30 January 1699 in Oreste et Pylade by
Lagrange-Chancel. In only three months she became so successful that
she was accepted as a full member of the company to replace her aunt,
who had left it in 1698. Like her aunt she played tragic roles (such
as Hermione in Andromaque and Émilie in Cinna) as well as comedy ones
(such as 'The Reader' in Le Légataire universel by Regnard and 'la
Néréine' in Le Curieux impertinent by Destouches). She retired in
1721.She became mistress to Louis, Grand Dauphin then to Philippe II,
Duke of Orléans, with whom she had a daughter in 1702, named
Angélique de Froissy by her father and married off to count Henri
François de Ségur. Desmares ended her life as the mistress of the
Swiss banker Antoine Hogguer, who completed the hôtel de Villeroy for
her in Paris in 1724. She also built herself the 'Folie Desmares' in
Châtillon, which still survives. She died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in
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