Abstract
With these words, Julie Candeille (1767-1834), one of the most popular women in French Revolutionary theater, expressed the frustration of a woman prohibited from pursuing her vocation. Having begun her career as a singer at the Opdra, a pianist at the Concert Spirituel (the primary venue for public concerts in lateeighteenth-century Paris), and an actress at the Comidie-Fran<aise, Candeille became an opera composer and librettist in the 1790s when she saw it as a more fulfilling avenue for her creative talents. The intensity of her statement suggests that, like many creative women of her generation, she felt entitled to her ambitions but was denied the means to fulfill them. In this article we
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