the young Mademoiselle Gérard was dancing at the Paris Opera and adopted the name by which she is remembered, Rosalie Duthé. She then became a dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet, as a ballet dancer and star at the Paris Opéra. Arthur Richard Dillon, Archbishop of Narbonne, the French born son of Count Dillon (an Irish Jacobite), was her first protector Rosalie was just 17, he was 44. She had watched Marie and Géneviève profit from their various lovers and determined to follow in their path. Probably very intelligent, the tag of being the ‘first dumb blonde’ was given as Catherine-Rosalie was lampooned in her day due to her habit of leaving long pregnant pauses before speaking. Under their tutelage, she learnt singing, comedy and gallantry. Marie and Géneviève took the young, pink-cheeked and fair-haired Catherine-Rosalie under their wing, and, at their home on the rue de la Chaussée d’Antin, taught her the tricks of their trade.
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