She became a star of the Comédie Italienne (which became the Opéra Comique), where she created over 30 roles. She was married to the actor Jean-Henry Gourgaud, who went by the stage name Dugazon. The couple was only briefly together.
Madame Dugazon gave her name to a type of role (young mothers, soubrettes, village girls) and a type of voice (a light mezzo soprano or a dark-colored soprano leggero).
All were admitted at Madame Bonaparte’s on a footing of equality, which was most gratifying. There came familiarly Murat, Duroc, Berthier, and all those who have since figured as great dignitaries, and some even as sovereigns, in the annals of the empire.
When mademoiselle arrived at Plombieres, her mother’s health was almost restored; so that the pupil of Madame Campan found there all the distractions which please and delight at the age which the daughter of Madame Bonaparte had then attained.
At this same concert the First Consul was struck with the beauty of a famous singer, Madame Grassini. He found her by no means cruel, and at the end of a few hours the conqueror of Italy counted one conquest more.
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