{{Short description|French operatic soprano}} '''Marie Aubry''' (c.1656–1704) was a French operatic soprano of the Baroque period.<ref name="Grove">{{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Aubry, Marie|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40857|author=James R. Anthony}}</ref>
==Life and career== Marie Aubry was born in France in c. 1656.<ref name="Grove"/> She was the daughter of Léonard Aubry and Geneviève Béjart, sister of French actress Madeleine Béjart.<ref name="Brenac">[http://jean-claude.brenac.pagesperso-orange.fr/LULLY_chanteurs.htm ''L'opéra baroque, les chanteurs de Lully''], Jean-Claude Brenac.</ref> While in the service of the Philippe I, Duke of Orléans's private music troupe, she was recruited by Pierre Perrin and Robert Cambert of the Académie Royale de Musique and became first soprano in the troupe of Jean-Baptiste Lully, creating for him roles in the following operas: Oriane in ''Amadis de Gaule'', Sangaride in ''Atys'', Philonoé in ''Bellérophon'', Io in ''Isis'', Andromède in ''Persée'', and the title role in ''Proserpine'', Aeglé in ''Thésée''.<ref name="Grove"/>
She and her brother Sébastien were supposedly implicated in the so-called assassination attempt of Lully by her lover Henri Guichard in 1675. A subsequent trial lasted for a three year period.<ref name="Grove"/>
Described as small, with white skin and black hair, she retired from the stage in 1684, because of obesity such that she could no longer walk.<ref name="Brenac"/>
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