Mr Crosset

(18**-18**) Circus performer, singer and actor. Advertised as "first vocal actor, Tenor ....of the Theatre, Mauritius". Married to Mrs Crosset, also a member of the company.

A member of the French Dramatic Artistes who had arrived from Mauritius as part of an Italian Circus led by Signor Severo and Dalle Case in November 1847. In February 1848 a number of the artists broke away to form a company led by Dalle Case. Mr Crosset is listed as a singer and performer in a number of performances by the Dalle Case Company, inter alia in De Twee Savoyanen (14 February 1848, with Monsieur Victor).

By March 1848 the company had to close due to financial; difficulties and Monsieur Crosset), and two other leading artists (Monsieur Victor and X. Hus) then formed the Theatre de L'Union in March 1848, but by the end of September the company had disappeared.