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Adolphe Guénée
Adolphe Guénée (14 December 1818 in Paris – 16 July 1877 in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright. The son of a conductor of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, he studied in College Bourbon and made his debut in 1838 at the Théâtre de la Gaîté. Director of the theater district of Caen, his plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, and the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. Works * ''L'Orphelin du parvis Notre-Dame ou la Jeunesse de d'Alembert'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1838 * ''La France et l'industrie'', vaudeville allégorique in 1 act, à propos de l'exposition des produits de 1839, with Pierre Tournemine, 1839 * ''Les Guerres de Paris'', vaudeville populaire in 3 acts, with Tournemine, 1839 * ''Une Mauvaise plaisanterie'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Jules Brésil, 1839 * ''Tiennette ou le racoleur et la jeune fille'', vaudeville in 1 act, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Couailhac
Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (other) * Louie (other) * Luis (other) * Louise (other) * Louisville (other) * Louis Cruise Lines * Louis dressing, for salad * Louis Quinze, design style Associated names * * Chlodwig, the origin of the name Ludwig, which is translated to English as "Louis" * Ladislav and László - names sometimes erroneously associated with "Louis" * Ludovic, Ludwig, Ludwick Ludwick is a surname of German origin, and may refer to: * Andrew K. Ludwick (born 1946), American businessman *Christopher Ludwick (1720–1801), American baker * Eric Ludwick (born 1971), American baseball player * Robert Ludwick-Forster (born 19 ..., Ludwik, names sometimes translated to English as "Louis" {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Monnier
Albert Monnier, (22 July 1815 extraite du fichier de l'état-civil reconstitué des Archives numérisées de la Ville de Paris – 1 July 1869) was a 19th-century French author, poet, biographer and playwright. Works (selection) * ''Le Dada de Paimboeuf'', with Édouard Martin * ''Mauricette'', ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Potier
Charles Joseph Édouard Potier, called Charles (Bordeaux, 1806 – Asnières-sur-Seine, 28 April 1870) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. A son of Charles-Gabriel Potier, an actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1826), the Théâtre du Palais-Royal than at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, his plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre Déjazet. Works * ''Les 20000 francs'', drama in 1 act mingled with songs, with Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé, 1832 * ''La Fille du bourreau'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Boulé, 1833 * ''Le Peloton de fil'', moralité in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1834 * ''Parce que, ou la Suite de ''Pourquoi ?'' '', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Boulé, 1835 * ''Fanchette, ou l'Amour d'une femme'', drama-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Boulé, 1836 * ''Le Facteur, ou la Justice des hommes'', drama in 5 ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Grangé
Eugène Grangé (16 December 1810 – 1 March 1887) was a French playwright, librettist, chansonnier and goguettier. Biography The son of Pierre-Joseph Basté and Louise-Thérèse Grangé, Pierre-Eugène Basté was born in rue Beautreillis in Paris. He attended the school and the collège Charlemagne. After graduation, he began working in a banking house that he left to start a literary career. At 17, he found himself having comédies en vaudeville played in the small theaters of Boulevard du Temple. He would sign these pieces with his middle name, Eugène and his mother's surname. He became the favorite author of Théâtre des Funambules and of Mme Saqui's show. By that time, he was dubbed the " Scribe of the boulevard du Temple". As a consequence of his success, Mme Saqui wanted him to work exclusively for her. For a year or two, Grangé would be the sole - and highly paid - author of her theater. In 1833, he gave the théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques a three-act play: ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Cormon
Pierre-Étienne Piestre, known as Eugène Cormon (5 May 1810 – March 1903), was a French dramatist and librettist. He used his mother's name, Cormon, during his career. Cormon wrote dramas, comedies and, from the 1840s, libretti; around 150 of his works were published. He was stage manager at the Paris Opéra from 1859 to 1870, and administrator of the Théâtre du Vaudeville from 1874. His libretti include ''Les dragons de Villars'' (with Lockroy), ''Gastibelza'' (with d'Ennery) and ''Les pêcheurs de Catane'' (with Carré) for Maillart, ''Les pêcheurs de perles'' (with Carré) for Bizet, ''Robinson Crusoé'' (with Crémieux) for Offenbach, and ''Les Bleuets'' (with Trianon) for Cohen. The Fontainebleau act as well as the auto-da-fé scene of Verdi's opera ''Don Carlos'' is based in part on Cormon's 1846 play ''Philippe II, Roi d'Espagne'' ("''Philip II, King of Spain''"). At the Moscow Art Theatre in 1927 the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée De Jallais
Amédée de Jallais (17 December 1826 – 31 January 1909) was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier. Biography The son of a lieutenant colonel in the guards, he studied at the College Bourbon then entered in the insurance company La Nationale (1845–1850) as employee, a position he will leave to devote himself entirely to literature after the success of his comedy ''Un de perdu, une de retrouvée''. Collaborator of the ''Gazette des théâtres'', then of the ''Messager des théâtres'', he became managing director of the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques (1871) then after the blaze of this theatre on 22 May 1871, of the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs. Administrator dof the Théâtre Déjazet (1874–1875), general secretary of the Théâtre de la République (1897), he married the actress Eudoxie Laurent in 1862. He wrote more than two hundred plays which were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Flan , a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name "Alexandre"
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Lambert-Thiboust
Lambert-Thiboust (25 October 1827 – 10 July 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography Lambert-Thiboust began his career as a comedian. He won a prize for tragedy at the Paris Conservatoire in 1848 and briefly pursued acting at the Théâtre de l'Odéon. His first play, ''L'Hôtel Lambert'', a one-act comedy, was presented at the Odeon the same year. In 1850, his three-act play ''L'Homme au petit manteau bleu'', gained real success. During the next 20 years, alone and with such collaborators as Alfred Delacour, Théodore Barrière, Clairville, Adrien Decourcelle, Henri de Kock, Paul Siraudin, Ernest Blum, Eugène Grangé and Frédéric Charles de Courcy, he wrote a hundred plays, comedies, vaudevilles and dramas, many of which were successful. Honors * Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur au titre du Ministre de la Maison de l'Empereur et des Beaux-Arts (12 August 1864 decree). Parrain : Camille Doucet, of the Académie française [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Delacour
Alfred Delacour or Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour, real name Pierre-Alfred Lartigue, (3 September 1817 – 31 March 1883 ) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. Biography In addition to his occupation as a physician, which he practised from 1841, Delacour turned progressively to the theatre. He collaborated with Eugène Labiche and Clairville for several vaudevilles Titles and decorations * Knight of the Legion of honour (7 August 1867 decree) His entry on the Base Léonore wrongly calls him ''Alfred-Charlemagne'' which was his pen name. Plays ''Le Courrier de Lyon'' (1850) was one of Delacour's noted plays. It was written together with Eugène Moreau and Paul Siraudin. The play was based on the story of Joseph Lesurques, an innocent man who was executed after he was mistaken for the leader of a gang who brutally murdered a courier. Aside from his collaborations with Labiche and Clairville, Delacour also worked with Lambert Thiboust on ''Le diable'' (1880), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul De Kock
Charles Paul de Kock (May 21, 1793 in Passy, Paris – April 27, 1871 in Paris) was a French novelist. Although one of the most popular writers of his day in terms of book sales, he acquired a literary reputation for low-brow output in poor taste. In 2021 Brad Bigelow wrote: "Today, if we set aside over-priced print on demand reprints of his ancient editions, the works of Paul de Kock haven't seen a new English edition (or translation) in at least a century." Biography His father, Jean Conrad de Kock, a banker of Dutch extraction, was guillotined in Paris 24 March 1794, a victim of the Reign of Terror. His mother, Anne-Marie Perret, née Kirsberger, was a widow from Basel. Paul de Kock began life as a banker's clerk. For the most part he resided on the Boulevard St. Martin in Paris, where he was born and lived out his life, rarely leaving the city. He began to write for the stage very early and composed many operatic libretti. His first novel, ''L'Enfant de ma femme'' (181 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubize
Lubize, real name Pierre-Michel Martin or Martin-Lubize (21 February 1798 (3 ventôse an VI) registre des naissances de l'an VI pour la ville de Bayonne, Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques. – 28 January 1863 Acte n°125 () registre des décès de l'année 1863 pour le 9e arrondissement, Archives numérisées de la Ville de Paris.) was a 19th-century French |
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