Auguste Vestris

(1760-1842)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842 LBT ID: AuVestr1842 VIAF ID: 44436489 LOC ID: n97859240	B/BAP: 1760-03-27 DIED: 1842-12-05
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French dancer, the illegitimate son of Gaëtan Vestris (1729-1808) and father of the dancer Armand Vestris (1787-1825), husband of Lucia Elizabeth, Madame Vestris.
REFERENCES TO Auguste Vestris: Frederick Foster to Lady Melbourne, [November 1802] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter III.