JACQUES, Charlotte

Charlotte Rollé-Jacques, born Charlotte Adèle Louise Jacques in Mametz, is a French composer.

Charlotte Jacques was the daughter of schoolteacher Adolphe Auguste Jacques and Agnès Gabrielle Caillieu. She trained in composition at the Paris Conservatory of Music and Declamation in Aimé Leborne's counterpoint and fugue class and was the first woman to receive an award in these classes since the school's founding in 1795. Charlotte Jacques did not win the prize for counterpoint and fugue but received a second honorable mention in 1861, a less prestigious award.

From 1863, Charlotte Jacques called herself Charlotte Jacques-Labalette. Later she married Silvain Jérôme Augustin Rollé and became Charlotte Rollé-Jacques. She taught piano and harmony. She was appointed an officer of the academy in the order of Academic Palms in 1891 then promoted to officer of Public Instruction in 1898, was awarded the gold medal of mutualism in 1906 and was raised to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honour on June 16, 1912 by decree of the Minister of Labour.