Marie-Anne Botot (29 December 1714 - 29 February 1796) was a French
comic actress. She was born and died in Paris. Her stage name was Mlle
Dangeville la jeune.The daughter of the dancing-master
Antoine-François Botot Dangeville and the actress Catherine Desmares,
she made her stage début aged only eight. She was taught dance by her
father and tragic and comic acting by her mother. She played her first
major rôle aged 15 on 28 January 1730 in Philippe Néricault
Destouches's comedy Le Médisant. Two months later she was received
into the troupe of the Comédiens du roi where she "filled soubrette
roles and several other characters in an inimitable manner".She then
remained successful for over thirty years before retiring to a house
on rue de Vaugirard in Paris in 1763. There she held family
celebrations and received poets and writers such as Antoine-Marin
Lemierre, Claude Joseph Dorat and Germain-François Poullain de
Saint-Foix. She even posthumously became the lead character in
Mademoiselle Dangeville, comédie en 1 acte mêlée de chant, a
vaudeville by Charles de Livry and Ferdinand de Villeneuve, premiered
in the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 10 April 1838. Marie-Anne Botot Dangeville Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter