Louise Marquet
(1830-1890)

Louise Marquet is seen here as she appeared in the role of Hamza, the evil fairy in Marie Taglioni's Le papillon (1860).

In 1861 she danced the role of Denise in Le marché des puces, and later in the same year she created the role of Countess Aldini in L’étoile de Messine. In 1863 she danced Bathilde in Giselle, with Martha Muravieva in the title role, and in 1866 she danced Magreb in La source. In 1865 she appeared in Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine; in 1867 she appeared in a revival of Mazilier’s Le Corsaire, playing the same role she had created in 1856; and later in the same year she danced the role of Queen of the Waters in Le ballet de la reine: La peregrina, a divertissement by Lucien Petipa in Act III of Verdi’s Don Carlos.

She also danced in La muette de Portici, in Marco Spada and in Le dieu et la bayadère.

She died in Paris on 22 December 1890.