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G. DUROSOIR : 'Paulet, Angélique', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Paulet, Angélique
(b c1591; d 1650). French singer and lutenist. Her father, secrétaire ordinaire of the Chambre des Comptes, was a gentleman from the Languedoc. She lived at court, where she attracted attention for her beauty and good nature, her musical talent and her ability to dance gracefully. Her first great success at court was as Arion in the Ballet de la reine, performed on 31 January 1609 with Queen Marie de Médicis in the role of Amphitrite. From 1620 until her death she frequented the famous chambre bleue of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, where the Marquise of Rambouillet received pœts, musicians and members of the aristocracy who disliked the vulgarity of the French court, and where she met Tallemant des Réaux, who wrote extravagant anecdotes about her. According to Mlle de Scudéry she was a pupil of Pierre Guédron. She exercised a wealth of imagination in entertaining her friends. During a performance of Jean de Mairet's play Sophonisbe she gave a musical entr'acte, dressed as a nymph and singing to her own accompaniment on the theorbo; the Abbé Arnaud wrote that ‘her admirable voice left us feeling no regrets for even the best violin ensemble as generally employed to play in the intervals’. Jean Chapelain (1595–1674) wrote the ‘Récit de Mlle Paulet’for her to perform in the Ballet des Dieux, représentant l'astre du lion (now lost).
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