Madame Grassot
Françoise Billiard, known as Madame/Mme Grassot or Fanny Grassot, was a French theatre actress, born in 1810 and died at the Rossini retirement home, rue Mirabeau in Paris, on 23 June 1892.
She performed in traveling troupes then at the Théâtre du Gymnase from 1833. Also cited at the Palais-Royal. In 1868, aged 57, with thirty years in the theatre, she received a pension of 200 francs by the Society of Artists (Société des Artistes).
She married actor Paul Grassot in Paris on 29 May 1852.
Theatre credits include Clara Soleil by Edmond Gondinet and Pierre Sivrac and La Cachucha by Desvergers, both at Théâtre du Vaudeville, and many more.
Theatre credits
Selected credits listed below.| 1892 | The Pont-Biquet Family by Alexandre Bisson |
| 1885 | Clara Soleil by Edmond Gondinet |
| 1882 | A Wedding Paris by Edmond About |
| 1853 | A Woman in my Fountain by Théodore Barrière |
| 1848 | Agénor the Dangerous by Eugène Labiche |
| " | An English Channel by Eugène Labiche |
| 1846 | Mademoiselle My Wife by Auguste Lefranc |
| 1845 | The Almanac of 25,000 Addresses by Ferdinand de Villeneuve |
| 1842 | The Fantastic Omelette by Louis Boyer |
| 1840 | Trianon by Jean-François Bayard |
| " | Bob by Paul Duport |
| " | Day to Fans by Emmanuel Théaulon |
| 1839 | Gabrielle by Jacques-François Ancelot |
| 1838 | The Grand Daddy Guerin by Laurencin |
| " | La Cachucha by de Desvergers |
| " | Paul Duport's Sister-in-Law |
| 1835 | Be Loved or Die! by Eugène Scribe |
| 1834 | Pécherel the Empailleur by Félix-Auguste Duvert |
| " | Salvoisy by Eugène Scribe |
| 1833 | It is Still the Happiness by Lockroy |
| " | A Mother by Jean-François Bayard |
| 1821 | The Little Sister by Eugène Scribe |