Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French actor
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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud
- Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud (29 April 1706 in Paris – 1 March 1774 in Paris), stage name Dugazon père (to distinguish him from his son Dugazon), was a French actor. Patriarch of a large acting dynasty, Dugazon advised Louis XIV on buildings, bridges and lodges.
- He left his birthplace around 1730 and it was probably then that he became an actor.
- He married Marie-Catherine Dumay in Lille on 18 November 1734 and stayed in that city until 1739, apart from a two-year stay in Brussels as director of the Théâtre de la Monnaie.
- On 11 December 1739, he débuted at the Comédie-Française but was not received into its company. From 1742 to 1749, he acted in Marseille where, among other theatrical engagements, he was director of hospitals for the armée d'Italie.
- Returning to his nomadic lifestyle, he acted at Bordeaux and Bayonne, before being thoroughly engaged in Stuttgart in 1760.
- He then directed the theatre at Montpellier during the 1769-1770 season and died in Paris in 1774. At least two of his children took up a theatrical career : Françoise-Rose Gourgaud, called Madame Vestris (1743-1804) Jean-Henri Gourgaud (1746-1809)
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