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Jean Guillemay du Chesnay, called Rosidor, was a 17th-century French playwright and actor.

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First a comedian in the Troupe du Marais, [1] Rosidor composed a five-act tragedy entitled La Mort du Grand Cyrus ou La Vengeance de Tomiris en 1662. [2] He also wrote a comedy Les divertissements du Temps ou la Magie de Mascarille and another play, Les amours de Merlin en 1671, [3] although some sources date the plays in 1691 and attribute them to his son Claude. [4] (father and son sharing the same nickname, this is a great source of confusion [5] ) Rosidor played in the satire La critique des Satures de Monsieur Boileau in 1668, a play which was quickly forbidden. [6]

Rosidor became the leader of a troupe that moved in 1669 to the Danish court where it gave performances both in French and in German. [7] However, the death of King Frederick III in 1670 put an end to their business. [8] The troupe performed later in Germany where she served the Duke of Celle [2] and in Italy.

Rosidor married Charlotte Meslier, the daughter of a couple of comedians trained by Mathias Meslier and Nicole Gassot [9] with whom he had a son, Claude-Ferdinand Guillemay du Chesnay who would also be an actor.

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  1. ↑ Emile Campardon, Les comédiens du Roi de la Troupe française, Genève, 1970, p.35.
  2. 1 2 J. Fransen, Les comédiens français en Hollande au XVII et XVIIIe siècles, Genève, 1978, p.127.
  3. ↑ Henri Liebrecht, Histoire du théâtre français à Bruxelles au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle, Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique, 1923, p.63.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Leiner, Horizons européens de la littérature française au XVIIe siècle: l'Europe, lieu d'échanges culturels? : la circulation des œuvres et des jugements au XVIIe siècle, G. Narr, 1988, p.298.
  5. ↑ Mohamed Samy Djelassi (Éd.), Rosidor, Les valets de chambre nouvellistes: comédie inédite en cinq actes et en prose, écrite à Stockholm vers 1701, Volume 1, Uppsala universitet, 1988, p.14.
  6. ↑ J. Fransen, op. cit., p.128.
  7. ↑ Gérald Laudin, « Le théâtre dans les pays scandinaves », dans : Peter-Eckhard Knabe/Roland Mortier/François Moureau, L'aube de la modernité, John Benjamins Pub Co, 2002, p.323.
  8. ↑ (in English) Frederick J. Marker/Lise-Lone Marker, A history of Scandinavian theatre, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p.44.
  9. ↑ Yves Giraud, La Vie théâtrale dans les provinces du Midi, Gunter Narr Verlag, 1980, p.161.
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