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Adolphe Franconi
Henri Adolphe Franconi (1801 – 2 November 1855) was a French playwright and circus performer. A grandson of Antonio Franconi and son of Henri Franconi, he succeeded him in 1827 as managing director of the Cirque-Olympique. He specialized in training horses. In 1835, he forged an association with Louis Dejean in order to establish a circus tent on the Champs-Élysées, at the Carré Marigny. He died of a heart attack at the Cirque-Olympique in 1855. Works *1819: ''Le Soldat laboureur'', mimodrama en 1 act *1828: ''Le Chien du régiment, ou l'Exécution militaire'', melodrama in 1 act, with Henri Franconi *1828: ''Le Drapeau'', military melodrama in 2 acts, a show with Louis Ponet and Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois *1828: ''L'éléphant du roi de Siam'', mimodrama in nine tableaux, with Léopold Chandezon and Ferdinand Laloue, ( mise-en-scène) *1830, ''L'Empereur'', historical events in 5 actes and 18 tableaux, with Ferdinand Laloue and Auguste Lepoitevin de L'Égreville Augu ... [...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] |
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] |
1801 Births
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French Circus Performers
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19th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Karr
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Life Karr was born in Paris to German pianist and composer Henri Karr (1784–1842), and after being educated at the Collège Bourbon, became a teacher there. Some of his novels, including his first, ''Sous les Tilleuls'' (1832), were autobiographical romances. A second novel, ''Une heure trop tard'', followed next year, and was succeeded by many other popular works. His ''Vendredi soir'' (1835) and ''Le Chemin le plus court'' (1836) continued the vein of autobiographical romance with which he had made his first success. ''Geneviève'' (1838) is one of his best stories, and his ''Voyage autour de Mon Jardin'' (1845) was deservedly popular. Others were ''Feu Bressier'' (1848), and ''Fort en thème'' (1853), which had some influence in stimulating educational reform. In 1855 he went to live in Nice, where he indulged his predilections for floriculture, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Lepoitevin De L'Égreville
Auguste may refer to: People Surname * Arsène Auguste (born 1951), Haitian footballer * Donna Auguste (born 1958), African-American businesswoman * Georges Auguste (born 1933), Haitian painter * Henri Auguste (1759–1816), Parisian gold and silversmith * Joyce Auguste, Saint Lucian musician * Jules Robert Auguste (1789–1850), French painter * Tancrède Auguste (1856–1913), President of Haiti (1912–13) Given name * Auguste, Baron Lambermont (1819–1905), Belgian statesman * Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810–1835), prince consort of Maria II of Portugal * Auguste, comte de La Ferronays (1777–1842), French Minister of Foreign Affairs * Auguste Clot (1858–1936), French art printer * Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics * Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935), French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer * Auguste Metz (1812–1854), Luxembourgian entrepreneur * Auguste Léopold Protet (1808–1862), French Navy admiral * Auguste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mise-en-scène
''Mise-en-scène'' (; en, "placing on stage" or "what is put into the scene") is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in visual arts through storyboarding, visual theme, and cinematography, and in narrative storytelling through direction. The term is also commonly used to refer to single scenes that are representative of a film. ''Mise-en-scène'' has been called film criticism's "grand undefined term." It has been criticized for its focus on the theatrical or dramatic design aspects rather than the plot itself, as those who utilize ''Mise-en-scène'' tend to look at what is "put before the camera," rather than the story. The use of ''mise-en-scène'' is significant as it allows the director to convey messages to the viewer through what is placed in the scene, not just the content of the scene. Definition in film studies When applied to the cinema, ''mise-en-scène'' refers to everything that appears before the camera and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Laloue
Ferdinand Laloue (1794 in Passy – 27 September 1850) was a French dramatist, librettist and theatre producer. Administrator of the Théâtre du Cirque-Olympique, he also was director of the Hippodrome and the théâtre des Délassements comiques. His onerous plays with fastuous settings were performed on the most important Parisian stages (Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Variétés etc.). Works * ''Le Fort de la halle'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont and Pierre Carmouche, 1821 * ''Le Petit Georges, ou la Croix d'honneur'', comedy in 1 act, 1821 * ''La Bataille de Bouvines, ou le Rocher des tombeaux'', mimodrame in 3 acts, with René Perin, 1822 * ''L'Arabe hospitalier'', melodrama in 1 act, 1822 * ''La diligence attaquée, or L'auberge des Cévennes'', with Constant Ménissier and Ernest Renaud, 1822 * ''La Fille à marier ou La Double éducation'', comédie en va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léopold Chandezon
Léopold Chandezon (died 17 July 1846) was a French playwright and librettist of the 19th century whose plays have been presented on the most famous Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre de la Gaîté (rue Papin), Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin etc. Works * ''Le Dernier bulletin, ou la Paix'', impromptu with vaudevilles, with Darrodes de Lillebonne, 1806 * ''Baudoin de Jérusalem ou les Héritiers de Palestine'', melodrama in three acts, with Eugène Cantiran de Boirie, 1814 * ''Henri IV, ou la Prise de Paris'', historical melodrama in 3 acts, with de Boirie and J-B. Dubois, 1814 * ''Jean sans peur, duc de Bourgogne, ou le Pont de Montereau'', heroic melodrama in 3 acts in prose, with de Boirie, 1815 * ''Le Mariage de Clovis ou Le Berceau de la Monarchie française'', melodrama in 3 acts, à grand spectacle, with de Boirie and J-B. Dubois, 1815 * ''La Marquise de Gange, ou les Trois frères'', historic melodrama in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois
Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806 – 12 January 1871) was a French dramatist. He was born in Paris. The first play to bear his name is ''L'Ami et le mari, ou le Nouvel Amphitryon'', a vaudeville in one act. It was produced in 1825, when the author was still in his teens. Over the course of his career he was credited in the writing of nearly 200 plays, as many as ten a year. However the nature of theatrical collaboration at this time was such that the extent of his contribution to any given play is debatable. In fact it is known that he assisted Alexandre Dumas in the writing of several plays (''Térésa, Angèle, Le Mari de la Veuve, La Vénitienne''), sometimes without acknowledgement. He is the subject of an anecdote in Dumas's "''Comment je devins auteur dramatique''" ("How I became a Dramatist"), published in 1833 in ''Revue des Deux Mondes''. Other writers with whom he worked were Philippe Dumanoir, Julien de Mallian, Victor Ducange, Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
