- François Duval (dancer)
François Duval (born
21 May 1743 ,Paris ), known as Malter, was a French dancer.The son of Antoine Duval, a
dance master in Paris, and of Henriette Brigitte Malter, two of his elder brothers were also involved in the theatre world - Antoine Jean François Duval (1732-?) left Paris in 1755 and worked as adance master in Rochefort/Mer, whilst Jean Charles Duval (1741-?) was first violin at the Comédie deLyon . François Duval was thus part of theMalter family , an 18th century dynasty of dancers and dance-teachers, and married Marie-Anne Hamoir, also from a family of dancers.François became
ballet master at theAcadémie royale de Danse . From 1778 he worked with Louis Hamoir and Jean Nicolas Le Mercier, thenFrançois Bigottini , as head of theThéâtre des Variétés-Amusantes , on rue de Bondy à Paris, at thethéâtre de la foire Saint-Laurent.Sources
* Émile Campardon, "Les spectacles de la Foire", Paris 1877
* "Dictionnaire de la danse", Paris, Larousse, 1999External links
* [http://www.cesar.org.uk/cesar2/books/campardon/index.php "Les spectacles de la Foire", by Émile Campardon, 1877]
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