revolutionary government. In 1792 after the French declaration of war on Austria in April and the subsequent revelations of the Brunswick Manifesto in August, Montansier demonstrated her patriotism by outfitting a contingent of soldiers for the defense of France. Later that year when the French invaded the Austrian Netherlands, under the command of General Charles François Dumouriez, Montansier convinced Dumouriez to allow her and her troupe to accompany the army. They may have provided assistance at the Battle of Jemmapes on 6 November 1792 and for certain entertained the troops after setting up a stage on the battlefield. Later, when the French armies arrived in Brussels, Montansier set up a theatre to present patriotic and propagandistic entertainments, including revolutionary plays by Fabre d'Églantine, Joseph Laignelot, and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois. These efforts did not completely satisfy her critics, however. When her troupe returned to Paris, she was accused of hiding émigrés in a fictitious third basement in the theatre at the Palais-Royal. Directors 1784–1790: de Lomel 1790–1812: Marguerite Brunet called "Mademoiselle Montansier" 1812–1831: Closed 1831–1860: Charles Contat-Desfontaines called "Dormeuil" 1860–1880: Francis de Plunkett called "Fleury" & Léon Dormeuil 1880–1885: Briet & Delcroix 1885–1912: Mussay & Boyer 1912–1942: Gustave Quinson 1942–1954: Jean de Létraz 1954–1965: Simone de Létraz 1965–1989: Jean-Michel Rouzière 1989–1998: Francis Lemonnier, Francis Nani and Christian Azzopardi 1998–2013: Francis Nani and Christian Azzopardi 2013–present: Francis Nani References Notes Sources Ayers, Andrew (2004). The Architecture of Paris. Stuttgart; London: Edition Axel Menges. . Braham, Allan (1980). The Architecture of the French Enlightenment. Berkeley: University of California Press. . Carlson, Marvin (1966). The Theatre of the French Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. . Fauquet, Joël-Marie, editor (2001). Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle. Paris: Fayard. . Forman, Edward (2010). Historical Dictionary of French Theater. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. . Hemmings, F. W. J. (1994). Theatre and State in France, 1760–1905. New York: Cambridge University Press. . (2006 paperback reprint). Hugot, Eugène (1886). Histoire littéraire, critique et anecdotique du Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 1784-1884, third edition. Paris: Ollendorff. Copies 1, 2, and 3 at Internet Archive. Kennedy, Emmet; Netter, Marie-Laurence; McGregor, James P.; Olsen, Mark V. (1996). Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. . Lecomte, Louis-Henry (1905). Histoire des théâtres 1402–1904. Notice préliminaire. Paris: Daragon. View at Google Books. Letzter, Jacqueline; Adelson, Robert (2001). Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French