Françoise-Éléonore Villain (1761 in Liège, Prince-Bishopric of
Liège â€" Stockholm 26 March 1783) was a Liégeois actress known
under her stage name Mlle Baron or Mademoiselle Baron the Younger. She
was engaged in Sweden in The French Theater of Gustav III from 1781
until 1783, where she was viewed as one of its most prominent members,
and she is also known in history as the lover of Charles XIII of
Sweden.She was born to Gabriel Villain and Antoinette Baptiste and was
noted to have appeared in The Hague in 1779â€"80. In 1781 she was
engaged as première actrice de la Comédie française de Sa Majesté
le roi de Suède, or first actress, at the French theater in Sweden by
Jacques Marie Boutet de Monvel. She was appreciated as a star of the
troupe for her tenure in Sweden, but became perhaps most known in
history because of her love affair with the king's brother, Duke
Charles, a relationship that attracted attention, particularly because
of the amounts he spent upon her, and for the great sorrow he showed
upon her early death.Count Axel von Fersen the Elder noted in December
1782 that Charles had replaced Charlotte Slottsberg with Baron (after
the exile of Charlotte Eckerman), and gave a detailed account upon
Baron's death in March 1783:
Liège â€" Stockholm 26 March 1783) was a Liégeois actress known
under her stage name Mlle Baron or Mademoiselle Baron the Younger. She
was engaged in Sweden in The French Theater of Gustav III from 1781
until 1783, where she was viewed as one of its most prominent members,
and she is also known in history as the lover of Charles XIII of
Sweden.She was born to Gabriel Villain and Antoinette Baptiste and was
noted to have appeared in The Hague in 1779â€"80. In 1781 she was
engaged as première actrice de la Comédie française de Sa Majesté
le roi de Suède, or first actress, at the French theater in Sweden by
Jacques Marie Boutet de Monvel. She was appreciated as a star of the
troupe for her tenure in Sweden, but became perhaps most known in
history because of her love affair with the king's brother, Duke
Charles, a relationship that attracted attention, particularly because
of the amounts he spent upon her, and for the great sorrow he showed
upon her early death.Count Axel von Fersen the Elder noted in December
1782 that Charles had replaced Charlotte Slottsberg with Baron (after
the exile of Charlotte Eckerman), and gave a detailed account upon
Baron's death in March 1783:
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