Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aubin, Madame St

Aubin, Madame St., at one time a very celebrated singer of the Opera Comique, died in 1850, at Paris, at the advanced age of eighty-seven. She was performing during the worst period of the first revolution, and was in communication with Marat, Robespierre, and Collotd'Herbois. She exerted her influence with these men to save victims from the scaffold, although there was a certain risk in so doing ; and during all her life was remarkable for charity and kindness. She left the stage at the age of forty-two. The Empress Josephine appointed her one of her readers.