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Antonin D'Avrecourt
Antonin Ernest d'Avrecourt, also known under the pseudonym Ernest-Georges Petitjean, was a French playwright of the 19th century, mostly known for his comedies and vaudevilles. His plays, signed under several pseudonyms, were performed on the most important Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Renaissance etc. Works *1831: ''Fifi Lecoq, ou Une visite domiciliaire'', anecdote contemporaine, mêlée de couplets, with Philippe-Amédée Roustan *1831: ''La Future de province, ou les Informations'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Dumanoir *1833: ''Poète et maçon'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Adolphe de Leuven and Eugène Roche *1833 : ''Le Cadet de famille'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Léon Lévy Brunswick and Louis-Émile Vanderburch *1836: ''Madame Peterhoff'', vaudeville anecdote in 1 act, with Charles de Livry *1836: ''Une spéculation'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Dumanoir and E. Roche *1837: '' ... [...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] |
Charles De Livry
Charles Sanguin, marquis de Livry ( Paris 1802 – Enghien 14 October 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright. After he made a career in the military, he became famous in the theatre. His plays, often signed Charles, were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, and the Théâtre de la Gaité. Works *1828: ''Le Château de Monsieur le baron'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Achille d'Artois and de Leuven *1828: ''Le Coup de pistolet'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Adolphe d'Houdetot *1828: ''L'École de natation'', tableau- vaudeville in 1 act, with de Leuven and Alphonse Signol *1829: ''L'Audience du juge de paix, ou le Bureau de conciliation'', tableau in 1 act, with Edmond Rochefort *1829: ''La Barrière du combat, ou le Théâtre des animaux'', 2 tableaux mingled with animals and couplets, with Adolphe de Leuven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Édouard Lafargue
Édouard Edmond Lafargue (1803 in Langon – 1 February 1884 in Paris) was a French playwright. His plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés etc. Quelques-unes de ses pièces ont été signées under the pen name ''Camille''Joseph Marie Quérard, ''Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées'', 1869, (p. 634) Plays *1825 : ''Le mauvais sujet'', drama, with Eugène Scribe *1842 : ''Le Château de la Roche-noire, ou Un amour posthume'', comedy in 1 act, mixed with vaudevilles, with Paul Siraudin *1845 : ''L'almanach des adresses'', comédie en vaudevilles in three acts, with Ferdinand de Villeneuve *1845 : ''L'Escadron volant de la Reine'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Dumanoir *1847 : ''La Cour de Biberach'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Eugène Guinot *1850 : ''Un fantôme'', comédie en vaudevil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Desroziers
Alfred Desroziers, full name André Jules Alfred Desroziers, (26 January 1807 – 9 March 1870) was a French poet, playwright, and librettist His plays were presented on the several Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the Théâtre de la Gaîté, the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. He also wrote under the pen name ''Deléris'' and ''Alfred de Léris'' (from his mother's name). Works *1833: ''Trois nouvelles et un conte'' *1840: ''Zizine, ou l'École de déclamation'', vaudeville in 1 act *1840: ''Les Oiseaux de Bocace sic"', vaudeville in 1 act, with Saint-Yves *1840: ''L'Autre ou les Deux maris'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Saint-Yves *1840: ''Un mariage russe'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Félix Dutertre de Véteuil *1840: ''Misère et génie'', drama in 1 act, with Henri de Tully *1841: ''La mère et l'enfant se portent bien'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Dumanoir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Nyon
Eugène Nyon (16 March 1812 – 29 January 1870 Archives numérisées de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du 18ème arrondissement, registre des décès de 1870, acte n° 281, vue 6/3) was a French Vaudeville, vaudevillist and writer, particularly known for his historical novels and educational stories for young people. His most famous story is ''Le Colon de Mettray'', set in the Mettray Penal Colony. Eugène Nyon also collaborated with several magazines, including ''Revue pour tous'', under the name Amédée Achard, and the ''Journal des dames et des modes'', which he contributed Parisian chronicles under the name "Countess of Sabran" and of which he was the director for a time. In the theater, his most famous collaborator was Eugène Labiche. He is buried at Montmartre Cemetery (26th division). Works *1842: ''Les Pérégrinations, escapades et aventures de Claude La Ramée et de son cousin Labiche'', 1842 *1843: ''Les Dots'', nouvelles *1844: ''Les Dévouements'' *1844: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Carmouche
Pierre Carmouche (9 April 1797 - 9 December 1868) was a French playwright and chansonnier. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies, comédies en vaudevilles and texts for opéras comiques, in collaboration with diverse authors - Brazier, Dumersan, Mélesville, de Courcy, etc. In 1824 he married the actress Jenny Vertpré. He also collected a rich library, bequeathed in part to marshal Canrobert. Theatre * ''Les Poissons d'avril, ou le Charivari'', comédie en vaudevilles, with Émile Cottenet, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 1 April 1816. * ''Le Bateau à vapeur'', comedy in one act, mingled with couplets, with Émile Cottenet, Philibert Rozet, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 1816. * ''L'Heureuse Moisson, ou le Spéculateur en défaut'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act mingled with couplets, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and Frédéric de Courcy, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, September 1817. * ''La Cloyère d'huitres, ou les Deux Briquebec'', co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsène De Cey
Arsène de Cey, real name François-Arsène Chaise de Cahagne (2 March 1806 - 20 November 1887) was a French playwright and novelist. A civil servant at the Ministry of Public Works (1858), his Play (theatre), plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Gaîté (boulevard du Temple), Théâtre de la Gaîté etc. Works Novels *1833 : ''La Fille du curé'', roman de mœurs *1833 : ''Jean le bon apôtre'', roman de mœurs *1835 : ''Sagesse, ou la Vie d'étudiant'', roman, 4 vols. *1836 : ''La Jolie Fille de Paris'', 4 vols. *1836 : ''Le Premier Pas'', roman Theatre *1837 : ''Vingt ans après'', comedy in 1 act, mixed with distincts, with Paul Duport *1842 : ''Quand on n'a rien à faire'', comedy-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Lockroy *1848 : ''Le Grand-papa Guérin'', comedy-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Laurencin *1840 : ''Les Caprices'', co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Varin
Charles Voirin, called Varin, (20 January 1798 (1er pluviôse an VI) – 24 April 1869) was a 19th-century French playwright. He also wrote under the pen names V. Warin and Victor. Biography Destined by his father to the profession of notary, Varin spent ten years at the bottom of a study, where he once came to Paris without money. Interested in writing plays, he spent a long time to break the circle of obstacles which opposed its inception. When the first success came, around 1825, he called himself Victor first, then took the pseudonym Varin, so that his father kept in ignorance of its gains, would not suppress his student pension. After he made his way to the stage, it provided very regularly plays, usually vaudevilles, full of gaiety and movement. He wrote mostly in company with various authors. To cite only a few: Bayard, Clairville, Desvergers, Paul de Kock, Duvert, Labiche, Auguste Lefranc, Henri Rochefort, Étienne and Jacques Arago. In August 1864 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Arvers
Félix Arvers (July 23, 1806 – November 7, 1850) was a French poet and dramatist, most famous for his poem ''Un secret''. Born in Paris, Arvers abandoned his law career aged 30 to concentrate on theatre. His plays gained moderate success in their own time, but none were as notorious as ''Un Secret'', dedicated to Marie, the daughter of writer Charles Nodier. This poem was taken from a piece he wrote aged 25, ''Mes heures perdues'' (''My lost hours''). Felix Arvers found no way to express his unrequited love and alleviate his pain, he had no way but confide his feelings in a sonnet. The poem was so heart-rending and struck such a success and popularity with its powerful romantic description of profound feelings among the frequenters of the Paris literary salons that it was circulated for recite among them for years before becoming a classic of French romantic poetry after his death. ''Un secret'' was the only well-known poem in his oeuvre titled '' Mes heures perdues'', Fél ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Desnoyer
Charles-Louis-François Desnoyer, or Desnoyers, (6 April 1806 – 6 February 1858) was a 19th-century French actor, playwright and theatre manager. He also wrote under the pen name Anatole de Beaulieu. Short biography He made his debut as actor and author in 1827 with a comédie en vaudeville, ''Je serai comédien''. He wrote many plays, comedies, dramas and melodramas for theaters on the boulevard du Crime in collaboration with other authors such as Eugène Nus, Léon Beauvallet or Adolphe d'Ennery. General manager of the Théâtre du Gymnase then at the Comédie-Française from 1841 to 1847, he became directing manager of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique in May 1852Gustave Vapereau, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', op.cit. When he died, '' La Presse'' read: Works Theatre *1825: ''L’Amour et la Guerre'', vaudeville in 1 act by Charles Varin, Étienne Arago and Desnoyer, Théâtre du Vaudeville (22 August) *1826: ''Je serai comédien'', comedy in 1 ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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