Marie Justine Benoîte Favart (née Duronceray) (15 June 1727 â€" 22
April 1772) was an operatic singer, actress, playwright and dancer,
the wife of the dramatist, Charles Simon Favart.To her is largely due
the beginnings of the change in this theatre[which?] to performances
of a lyric type adapted from Italian models, which developed later
into the genuine French comic opera. She was also a bold reformer in
matters of stage costume, playing the peasant with bare arms, in
wooden shoes and linen dress, and not, as heretofore, in court costume
with enormous hoops, diamonds and long white kid gloves. With her
husband, and other authors, she collaborated in a number of successful
pieces, and one La fille mal gardée she produced alone.Maurice, comte
de Saxe, a Marshal of France and her husband's patron, began to make
advances to Mme Favart, and Favart was forced to flee. Mme Favart was
established by the marshal in a house at Vaugirard; proving a fickle
mistress, she was suddenly arrested and confined in a convent, where
she was brought to unconditional surrender in the beginning of 1750.
Before the year was out the marshal died, and Mme Favart reappeared at
the Comédie Italienne, where for twenty years she was a great
favourite. Among the roles created by Mme Favart were La Vieille,
Robinette and Thérèse in Egidio Duni's La fée Urgèle, which was
premiered at court in 1765.Madame Favart in fictionalised form is the
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