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  • Unfortunately, Madame Dugazon thought proper to bow to the Queen as she sang the words, "Ah, how I love my mistress!" in a duet.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • When each had taken his place at table, Dugazon, pretending to stammer, addressed a remark to Thiemet, who, playing the same role, replied to him, stammering likewise; then each of them pretended to believe that the other was making fun of him, and there followed a stuttering quarrel between the two parties, each one finding it more and more difficult to express himself as his anger rose.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Bonaparte's staff, his most frequent guests, he had also frequently at his table the ventriloquist Thiemet, Dugazon, Dazincourt, and Michau of the Theatre Francais, and a few other persons, whose names escape me at this moment.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • I recall still another amusing scene, the two heroes of which were this same Thiemet, of whom I have just spoken, and Dugazon.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Théâtre de la République -- who had already secured Talma, Dugazon and Madame

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • You may yet tread the stage of the Comedie Francaise, the rival of Talma, Fleury, and Dugazon.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Dugazon behaved villainously in the Revolution: he was one of those who went for the King to Varennes, and an eyewitness told me that he had seen him at the carriage door with a gun on his shoulder.

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

  • The house was furnished in the best taste, and without ostentation; there was a small but charming theatre in the house, where my sister-in-law, my brother, M. de Riviére and I often played in comic operas with Mme. Dugazon, and Garat, Cailleau, and Laruette.

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

  • I now come to one whose entire dramatic career I have been able to follow – the best talent the Opéra-Comique had to show, Mme. Dugazon.

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

  • Dugazon, his successor in humorous parts, would have been an excellent comedian if a desire to make the public laugh had not often led him into being farcical.

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

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