Adelaide Gavaudan in the male role of Jean in Jean-Pierre Solie's comic opera Jean et Genevieve, Theature Feydeau, 1801. Alexandrine-Adelaïde Gavaudan, French soprano opera singer, 1762-1805. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Le Musee des Theatres dedie aux dames, Premiere Annee, Firmin Didot, Paris, 1819.

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