Babette Cochois
Babette (Barbe and Babet) Cochois (1725–1780) was a French writer and ballerina active in Prussia.
Babette Cochois
She was the sister of the ballerina Marianne Cochois. She was engaged at the French court theatre and opera of Frederick the Great in Prussia in 1743-49, where she was considered a leading artist of that stage and was given the privilege to reside in Charlottenburg Palace.
In 1749 she married the French writer Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens and became active as a writer.
She has been the subject of poems and a famous painting by Antoine Pesne.
References
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- Pierre Gaxotte, Frederick the Great
- Gustav Berthold Volz, Der Grosse Konig
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- Gunilla Roempke (1994). Gunilla Roempke. red. Vristens makt – dansös i mätressernas tidevarv. Stockholm: Stockholm Fischer & company. ISBN 91-7054-734-3
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