 Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu

Thimoléone-Rose-Caroline Chevalier Lavit, known by her married name as Alexandrine-Caroline (or Caroline or simply Mme) Branchu (2 November 1780 – 14 October 1850) was a French opera soprano of mixed race who was born in Cap-Français, Saint-Domingue the former French colony which is the modern-day Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.A gifted vocalist, for the better part of the first quarter of the 19th century, she was a leading soprano at the Paris Opéra.