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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] |
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Inhabitants are called ''Saint-Germanois'' or ''Saint-Germinois''. With its elegant tree-lined streets it is one of the more affluent suburbs of Paris, combining both high-end leisure spots and exclusive residential neighborhoods (see the Golden Triangle of the Yvelines). Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a sub-prefecture of the department. Because it includes the National Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, it covers approximately , making it the largest commune in the Yvelines. It occupies a large loop of the Seine. Saint-Germain-en-Laye lies at one of the western termini of Line A of the RER. History Saint-Germain-en-Laye was founded in 1020 when King Robert the Pious (ruled 996–1031) founded a convent on the site of the present Church of Saint-Germain. In 1688, James II of England exiled hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand-Numa Jautard
Armand-Numa Jautard was a 19th-century French playwright and chansonnier who died after 1872. he was still a member of the Société des auteur dramatiques in 1872. His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre des Variétés etc. Works *1835: ''Deux pour un, ou le Bigame'', vaudeville in one act *1842: ''La Peur du mal'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Albéric Second *1844: ''Les petits mystères du jardin Mabille dévoilés'', 3 vols., with Max Revel *1844: ''L'École d'un fat'', comedy in one act and in prose, with Marie de L'Épinay *1848: ''Les Fils de Télémaque'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Henri de Tully *1851: ''Les Giboulées'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Amédée de Jallais *1851: ''Un Monsieur qui n'a pas d'habit'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Montjoye *1852: ''Un Mari d'occasion'', comedy in one act, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Beauvallet
Léon Beauvallet, full name Pierre-Léon-Charles Beauvallet, (22 August 1828 – 22 March 1885) was a 19th-century French actor, playwright and novelist. Author of numerous plays, most of them written in collaboration, as well as feuilletons published in ''Le Passe-Temps'' before publication in print, he is best known for being part of the troupe who accompanied Rachel Félix to the United-States and Cuba in 1855. The account he gave of this odyssey, first published in ''Le Figaro'' under the title ''Rachel et le Nouveau-Monde'', had some success and was translated into English upon its release in 1856. Léon Beauvallet was Pierre-François Beauvallet's son and Frantz Beauvallet's father, both dramatists. Works Theatre *''Le Roi de Rome'', drama in 5 acts and 10 tableaux, with Charles Desnoyer, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, 13 June 1850 *''Les Femmes de Gavarni'', « scènes de la vie parisienne », 3 actes and a masquerade mingled with couplets, with Théodore Barrière a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parody
A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture). Literary scholar Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said "parody ... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music, theater, television and film, animation, and gaming. Some parody is practiced in theater. The writer and critic John Gross observes in his ''Oxford Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cabot
Charles Antoine Cabot (1806 – 11 February 1886) was a 19th-century French playwright, chansonnier and writer. First an actor at the theatres de la Gaîté, des Nouveautés, de l'Ambigu, du Cirque and de la Porte Saint-Martin (1837–40), he became dramaturge at the Théâtre historique and the Théâtre de la Gaîté (1847), then general dramaturge at the Théâtre du Châtelet (1863–1874). His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century. Works * ''Catastrophe épouvantable arrivée au puisatier Giraud et à son compagnon Jala'', with Amédée de Jallais, 1854 * ''La Corde du pendu'', two-act comédie en vaudeville, with de Jallais and Édouard Cadol, 1854 * ''La Mauvaise aventure d'une pauvre parfumeuse'', with de Jallais, 1854 * ''Sous un bec de gaz'', scène de la vie nocturne, with de Jallais and Léon Lelarge, 1854 * ''Nicodème sur la terre'', one-act vaudeville, with de Jallais, 1855 * ''Jacqueline Doucette'', one-act vaudev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Cadol
Édouard Cadol (11 February 1831 – 1 June 1898) was a 19th-century French playwright and novelist. Biography An employee at Chemins de Fer du Nord, Cadol soon left his position to dedicate himself entirely to literature. He made his debut as a critic in small newspapers such as the ''Courrier de Paris'' and the ''Journal de Francfort''. He became secretary of the editorial board of ''Le Temps'', wrote the drama chronicle in ''l’Esprit public'', was one of the cofounders of ''l’Esprit français'', published short stories in ''L'Univers'', ''Le Monde illustré ''Le Monde illustré'' (title translation: ''The Illustrated World'') was a leading illustrated news magazine in France which was published from 1857–1940 and again from 1945 to 1956. It was in many ways similar to its contemporary English ...'', ''l’Estafette'', le ''Nord'', while working in collaboration for theaters of the suburbs and the boulevards. The brilliant success of his comedy, ''Les Inutiles'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Charles Gabet
Émile Étienne ''Charles'' Gabet (16 May 1821 in Paris – 15 January 1903) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. Biography Gabet was the son of the painter Charles Gabet and his wife Françoise Ursine Eugénie Viquesnel. He led parallel careers as a commissaire de police and a dramatist. He was commissaire de police of the Porte-Saint-Martin quartier (that of théâtres of the boulevards Saint-Martin and Strasbourg). As a playwright and librettist, he worked with several major authors of his time: Alexandre Dumas, Clairville and Adolphe d'Ennery. He also parodied Victor Hugo with a malicious ''Ruy-Black'', lampooning ''Ruy Blas''. He died at the age of 81 in 1903 in his home at 89 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin in Paris. Works *1848: ''Le Socialisme, à -propos burlesque mêlé de couplets'', Spectacle-Concert (24 December) *1853: ''Un pacha dérangé'', one-act vaudeville, in collaboration with Amédée de Jallais, Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques (25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pochade
A pochade (from French ''poche'', pocket) is a type of sketch used in painting. As opposed to a croquis, which is line art, a pochade captures the colors and atmosphere of a scene. Generally, pochades use a small, portable format. Robert Henri and James Wilson Morrice, for example, painted such sketches on small wood panels that would fit in a coat pocket along with oil paint tubes. Others artists, such as landscape painter John Constable, made pochades the size of the intended painting. The French artist Alphonse Chigot Alphonse Charles Chigot (1824 – 1917) was a French History painting, historical painter and soldier, particularly associated with the city of Valenciennes where he had a studio for over sixty years. A former soldier in the French army he saw a ... produced a series of pochades of the towns people of Valenciennes that he sold from his studio which were later collected and publish in two volumes.Pierre and Georges Giard (1893), Charges et croquis – collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Renard (vaudevilliste)
Jules Renard (Paris, 1813 – Sèvres 1877) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevilliste. Works * ''Cherubin ou la journée des aventures'', comedy in five acts and six tableaux, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, 15 September 1852, Vialat et Cie * ''L'Hôtel des haricots'', vaudeville in three acts with Delbès, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de la Gaîté 18 January 1861, Pilloy, s.d. * ''Un million dans le ventre'', vaudeville in one act, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés, 17 May 1857, M. Lévy, s.d. * ''Même maison'', vaudeville in 1 act, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 4 May 1865, E. Dentu, 1865 * ''Une noce sur le carré'', comédie-vaudeville in one act, Palais-Royal, 6 April 1868, E. Dentu, 1868 * ''Deux prisonniers de Théodoros'', pochade A pochade (from French ''poche'', pocket) is a type of sketch used in painting. As opposed to a croquis, which is line art, a pochade captures the colors and atmosphere of a ... [...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] |
Tableau Vivant
A (; often shortened to ; plural: ), French language, French for "living picture", is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be Theatre, theatrically lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts. A tableau may either be 'performed' live, or depicted in painting, photography and sculpture, such as in many works of the Romanticism, Romantic, Aestheticism, Aesthetic, Symbolism (arts), Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite, and Art Nouveau movements. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tableaux sometimes featured ('flexible poses') by virtually nude models, providing a form of Erotica, erotic entertainment, both on stage and in print. Tableaux continue to the present day in the form of living statues, street performers who busk by posing in costume. Origin Occasionally, a Mass (liturgy), Mass was punctuated with short dramatic scenes and paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
