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Antoine Jacob
Antoine Jacob (1639, in Paris – 1685, in Aix), known as Montfleury, was a French actor and playwright and a rival of Molière.
Life and works.
Antoine Jacob was the son of Zacharie Jacob, who was the first to adopt Montfleury as a stage name and had achieved great fame as an actor and playwright himself. Both were associated with the Hôtel de Bourgogne theatre troupe, an institution supported by King Louis XIV, and Antoine was to marry Marie-Marguerite de Soulas
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- Parish records for England and Wales; 1841, 1851 UK censuses and Miss Julia Bennett's marriage certificate to Jacob Barrow in 1840 (NB: Jacob Barrow son of Simon Barrow of Bath was listed on the 1841 census at Walcot Bath living with his father, other records including 1848 newspaper reports show that Jacob Barrow married Julia Bennett on the 2nd Sep 1848 at St. James's Church Piccadilly).
- Backstage database (lead universities: University of Kent, Canterbury and University of Bristol)
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