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Antoine-François Varner
Antoine-François Varner (23 April 1789, in Paris – 5 September 1854, in 3rd arrondissement of Paris) was a 19th-century French vaudevillist. Short biography After he finished his studies at Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris, Varner served for a while in the dragoons. He then joined the army and took part to the French invasion of Russia as deputy commissioner of war. Unemployed under the Bourbon Restoration, he devoted himself to literature and composed comédies en vaudeville, either alone or in collaboration with Scribe, Ymbert, Bayard, Mélesville, Dupin, Delestre-Poirson, Dartois, Le Roux, Brazier, Duvert, Lauzanne, Deslandes and Prémaray. After 1830, Varner obtained a position as chief clerk at the Prefecture of the Seine, a position that he lost after the French Revolution of 1848. Works *1817: ''Le Solliciteur, ou l'Art d'obtenir des places'', one-act comedy mingled with vaudevilles (Eugène Scribe, Dupin, Varner, Ymbert, Delestre-Poirson), Théâtre des Var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippolyte Le Roux
Hippolyte Le Roux (Paris 1 July 1801 – Paris, 1 July 1860) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. As an actor, he appeared in '' le Festin de pierre'' at the Théâtre-Français (1847) and in ''La Vieillesse de Richelieu'' (Fronsac) by Octave Feuillet and Pierre-François Bocage at the Comédie-Française in 1848. His plays were presented on the most prestigious Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre des Variétés, and the Théâtre du Vaudeville. Works *1827: ''Le Jaloux'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act *1827: ''Une soirée à la mode'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Antoine-François Varner and Jean-François-Alfred Bayard *1829: ''Les Mendiants'', vaudeville in 3 tableaux, with Henry Monnier *1829: ''Le Petit Tambour'', tableau in 1 act *1829: ''Le Vieux Pensionnaire'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Bayard *1829: ''La Maîtresse'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Du Gymnase Marie Bell
The Théâtre du Gymnase or Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, is a theatre in Paris, at 38 Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, 10th arrondissement (métro : Bonne Nouvelle (Paris Métro), Bonne Nouvelle). History Inaugurated on December 23, 1820 by Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, Delestre-Poirson, the théâtre du Gymnase came to serve as a training-theatre for students of the conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, conservatoire, where they could appear solely in one-act plays or adaptations of longer plays into one-act plays. Poirson quickly added two-act plays to the theatre's repertoire, then 3-act plays, and drew up an exclusive contract with Eugène Scribe to supply them. He installed gas lighting in 1823 and in the following year, with the permission of the Caroline Ferdinande Louise, duchesse de Berry, duchesse de Berry, the theatre was granted the title of ''théâtre de Madame''. Closed for renovation in 1830, the theatre reopen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Couplet
A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. In a run-on (or open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the second. Background The word "couplet" comes from the French word meaning "two pieces of iron riveted or hinged together". The term "couplet" was first used to describe successive lines of verse in Sir P. Sidney's '' Arcadia '' in 1590: "In singing some short coplets, whereto the one halfe beginning, the other halfe should answere." While couplets traditionally rhyme, not all do. Poems may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. Couplets in iambic pentameter are called ''heroic couplets''. John Dryden in the 17th century and Alexander Pope in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Du Vaudeville
The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre company in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles. After the theatre on the rue de Chartres burned down in 1838, the Vaudeville temporarily based itself on boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle before in 1841 setting up in the Salle de la Bourse on the Place de la Bourse in the 2e arrondissement. This building was demolished in 1869. Eugène Labiche and Henri Meilhac put on several of their works there, and it also hosted Jules Verne's play ''Onze jours de siège'' (1861). Other writers whose works were put on there were Edmond Gondinet, Alexandre Bisson, Théophile Marion Dumersan, Jean-François Bayard, Narcisse Fournier and Gaston Arman de Caillavet. In 1852, ''La Dame aux camélias'' by Alexandre Dumas fils was put on here. For the first time in the era, there were over 100 consecutive perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristophanes
Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and ear ... Kydathenaion ( la, Cydathenaeum), was a comedy, comic playwright or comedy-writer of Classical Athens, ancient Athens and a poet of Ancient Greek comedy, Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Ancient Greek comedy, Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries. Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Des Variétés
The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle Montansier (Marguerite Brunet). Imprisoned for debt in 1803 and frowned upon by the government, a decree of 1806 ordered her company to leave the Théâtre du Palais-Royal which then bore the name of "Variétés". The decree's aim was to move out Montansier's troupe to make room for the company from the neighbouring Théâtre-Français, which had stayed empty even as the Variétés-Montansier had enjoyed immense public favour. Strongly unhappy about having to leave the theatre by 1 January 1807, the 77-year-old Montansier gained an audience with Napoleon himself and received his help and protection. She thus reunited the "Société des Cinq", which directed her troupe, in order to found a new theatre, the one which stands at the side of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Revolution Of 1848
The French Revolution of 1848 (french: Révolution française de 1848), also known as the February Revolution (), was a brief period of civil unrest in France, in February 1848, that led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic. It sparked the wave of revolutions of 1848. The revolution took place in Paris, and was preceded by the French government's crackdown on the campagne des banquets. Starting on 22 February as a large-scale protest against the government of François Guizot, it later developed into a violent uprising against the monarchy. After intense urban fighting, large crowds managed to take control of the capital, leading to the abdication of King Louis Philippe on 24 February and the subsequent proclamation of the Second Republic. Background Under the Charter of 1814, Louis XVIII ruled France as the head of a constitutional monarchy. Upon Louis XVIII's death, his brother, the Count of Artois, ascended to the throne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules-Martial Regnault De Prémaray
Jules-Martial Regnault de Prémaray (11 June 1819 in Pont-d'Armes Loire-Atlantique – 11 June 1868) was a French author. He was literary editor (and then, from 1848, chief editor) of '' la Patrie''. He published several poems, dramas and vaudevilles. Theatre * ''Le Cabaret de la veuve'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Léon Paillet, Paris, Théâtre Saint-Marcel, 20 April 1841 * ''Le Docteur Robin'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, 21 October 1842 * ''La Marquise de Rantzau, ou la Nouvelle Mariée'', comedy in 2 acts, mixed with distincts, Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, 13 December 1842 * ''Bertrand l'horloger, ou le Père Job'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, 3 March 1843 * ''Les Deux favorites, ou l'Anneau du Roi'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, 18 April 1843 * ''Le Capitaine Lambert'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, Paris, Théâtre du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulin Deslandes
Paul Deslandes, full name Nicolas Théodore Paulin Deslandes, (1806 – 25 April 1866) was a 19th-century French playwright. A singer at the Opéra Comique where he made his debut 3 April 1832, his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre de l'Ambigu etc. He is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. The bronze bust of E. Levêque adorning his tomb was beheaded by vandals. Works *1833: ''Étienne et Robert'', drame populaire in 1 act, mingled with cou ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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