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Consequently, the ballet performances where the only stage activity of the French theater which actually became lucrative among the wider
Swedish public, and the ballets therefore played an important role when the French theater arranged their public performances in Stockholm (in opposite as when they performed for the court nobility), and became more frequent and staged alone. When the actors and singers of the French theater was mostly praised by the French language aristocracy, the French ballet dancers became known and popular outside of the nobility, and Marguerite Du Londel and her main co-star
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The affair resulted in the birth of a son, Frederici (c. 1761-1771), which she gave the patronymic
Fredriksson. Frederici was taken care of by the Swedish Royal House, but he died in shirtly after his biological father in 1771, when he was about ten. In 1766, the king had assumed another affair with
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Marguerite Du Londel is also known as the mistress of the monarch, king Adolf
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after his succession to the throne. All of the members of the theater was fired without a pension, with the sole exception of
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by L. Anselme had its premier at the
Bollhuset theater in Stockholm, in which Marguerite Du Londel was given the line: "When I was young, I was the taste of a king". This caused great laughter in the theater, which was at that time attended by both the public and the royal family, because of the
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mistress, a condition he accepted and followed. However, queen Louisa Ulrika was very sensitive to any form of public embarrassment by the affair, which caused some incidents when the queen felt that discretion had not been followed. The most known incident of this affair was when the lyric play
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On 21 June 1771, Louis and
Marguerite Du Londel departed Sweden for France, despite a promise from Gustav III of doubling their pension if they remained in Sweden, as he would like them to be instructors at a theater school he planned to found. They settled in Metz in 1778. When some of the
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Marguerite Du Londel's son Frederici, whom he referred to as his half brother after the queen dowager Louisa Ulrika had informed him of a promise she had given the late king – Frederici, however, died later that same year.
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in 1792, because they felt unsafe in France because of their royalist sympathies as well as Louis Du Londel's noble descent on his mother's side. The following year, Marguerite Du Londel was widowed, and the new regency government of
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Marguerite Du Londel was trained as a ballet dancer, actress and singer, which was not uncommon at the time. From 1759 onward, she additionally participated as both an actress and a singer. As an actress, she mainly participated in
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In 1799, in connection to the debated fatherhood of Lolotte Forssberg (by that time countess Stenbock), the affair between the king and Marguerite Du Londel was also mentioned in a letter from count Fredrik Georg Strömfelt to
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between 1757 and 1769, while her husband and brother-in-law Pierre Lefebvre (married to her sister-in-law Louise Du Londel) was in parallel the instructor of the French language and fencing for the royal princes.
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Gunilla Roempke (1994). Gunilla Roempke. ed. Vristens makt – dansös i mätressernas tidevarv (The power of the ankle – dancer in the epoch of the royal mistresses) Stockholm: Stockholm Fischer & company.
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Jonsson, Leif & Ivarsdotter, Anna (red.), Musiken i Sverige. 2, Frihetstid och gustaviansk tid 1720–1810, Fischer, Stockholm, 1993 (Music in Sweden. The age of Liberty and the Gustavian age 1720–1810)
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remaining French artists performed in the Swedish court in 1780, Gustav III remarked that the only thing preventing them from being a full theatre was that the Du Londel couple was in Paris.
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Marguerite Du Londel made her debut in the Du Londel French theater in a ballet before the royal court in August 1755. She made a success, and the queen of Sweden,
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fact had different addresses until 1770 – while he lived with his mother, she was quartered in a room at the royal palace. The affair is mentioned by
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on 14 May 1757. It was one of the most expensive performances made by the French theater in all its twenty years in Sweden, to a cost of 6.000
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in 1760, when he mentioned that because of it, she was invited as a guest by the nobility, though never accepted as an equal by them.
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open secret of her relationship with the king, an incident which reportedly caused the queen to feel herself publicly insulted.
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during the winters. It was a significant theater with about twenty members, patronized by the royal court and the aristocracy.
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