DESGARCINS, MAGDELEINE MARIE (LouIsE) (1769-1797), French actress, was born at Mont Dauphin (Hautes Alpes). In her short career she became one of the greatest of French tragediennes, the associate of Talma, with whom she nearly always played. She made her debut at the Comedie F rancaise on May 24, 1788, in Bajazet, and was at once made societaire. She left the Comedic Francaise in 1791 for the house in the Rue Richelieu, soon to become the Theatre de la Repub lique, and there her triumphs were no less—in King Lear, Othello, La Harpe's Melanie et Virginie, etc. She died insane, in Paris, on Oct.