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Armand Lapointe
Armand Lapointe (1 May 1822 – 6 March 1910 ) was a French novelist, journalist and playwright. He also wrote the libretto of the opérette bouffe ''Mesdames de la Halle'' by Jacques Offenbach. Biography He was a prolific popular author in the years 1850–1890 and still obviously remembered at the time of his death.''Polybiblion'' : revue bibliographique universelle, volumes 118 à 119, page 464à lire en ligne During the Second French Empire, his comedies were given in Paris, at the Théâtre des Variétés and his opéra bouffe was produced at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens. From 1860, Lapointe was devoted mainly to writing novels. He was a friend of Gustave Aimard, with whom he would attend the . Works *1852: ''La Course à la veuve'', folie-vaudeville en 1 act *1853: ''Les Drames du foyer'', with F. de Reiffenberg fils *1853: ''Les moustaches grises'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Achille Bourdois and Émile Colliot *1853: ''Le mari par régime'', comédie en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paimbœuf
Paimbœuf (; br, Pembo) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, lying on the south bank of the river Loire upriver from Saint-Nazaire but considerably downriver from Nantes. In the Napoleonic era it was the site of considerable naval shipbuilding. The United States Navy established a naval air station there on 1 March 1918 to operate dirigibles during World War I. The base closed shortly after the First Armistice at Compiègne. Population See also *Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department The following is a list of the 207 communes of the Loire-Atlantique department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Loire-Atlantique {{Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comédie En Vaudevilles
The ''comédie en vaudevilles'' () was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened through lyrics using the melody of popular vaudeville (song), vaudeville songs.Barnes 2001. Evolution The annual fairs of Paris at St. Germain and St. Laurent had developed theatrical variety entertainments, with mixed plays, acrobatics, acrobatic displays, and pantomimes, typically featuring vaudevilles (see Théâtre de la foire). Gradually these features began to invade established theatres. The ''Querelle des Bouffons'' (War of the Clowns), a dispute amongst theatrical factions in Paris in the 1750s, in part reflects the rivalry of this form, as it evolved into ''opéra comique'', with the Italian ''opera buffa''. ''Comédie en vaudevilles'' also seems to have influenced the English ballad opera and the German Singspiel. Vaudeville final One feature of the ''comédie en vaudevilles'' which later found its way into opera w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri De Montaut
Henri de Montaut (1825 or 1830 – 1890 or 1900 ) was a French draftsman, engraver, and illustrator of the 19th century. He sometimes signed Henri de Hem, Monta or Hy. Career Henri de Montaut, with other artists such as Édouard Riou or George Roux, is remembered for the illustrations they made for the novels of the series ''Voyages extraordinaires'' by Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor .... He collaborated with '' Le Journal illustré'' for which he was chief editor for a time Jean-Pierre Bacot, ''La Presse illustrée au XIXe : une histoire oubliée'', Presses universitaires de Limoges (Pulim), coll. « Médiatextes », Limoges, 2005, 243 p. , (p. 113). as well as with '' La Vie Parisienne''. In 1883, he became chief editor of ''L'Art et la mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878. Events *January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. *June – Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories '' The Suicide Club'' featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in ''The London Magazine''. *June 10 – Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS ''Mavis''. *July – The Scottish poetaster William McGonagall, a self-described "poet and tragedian", journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria. *August 3 – Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about his monotonous life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France. *October – The Peabody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1876. Events *February 24 – The stage première of the verse-play ''Peer Gynt'' by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867 in literature, 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Oslo, Christiania, Norway. *February/March – ''The Harvard Lampoon'' humor magazine is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. *March 14 – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma established in Rome. *March **Americans, American librarian Melvil Dewey first publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system. **George Bernard Shaw moves permanently from Dublin to England, after which he begins his writing career as the ghostwriter of a musical column in London satirical weekly ''The Hornet''. *April – Émile Zola's ''L'Assommoir'' begins serialization in ''Le Bien public''. Its low-life themes cause it to be suspended after six episodes; serialization resumes in July in ''La République des lettres''. *July – Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1875. Events *January 16 – Henry James Byron's comedy ''Our Boys'' opens at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. It becomes the world's longest-running play until the 1890s, with 1,362 performances up to April 1879. It also opens this year in New York, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre. *February/March – Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, and gives him the manuscript of his poems ''Illuminations''. Rimbaud stops writing literature entirely at the age of 20. *February 12 – Robert Louis Stevenson is introduced (by Leslie Stephen) to fellow writer W. E. Henley, at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He will be the model for Long John Silver. Henley also meets his future wife while in hospital and writes the poems collected as ''In Hospital''. *April 28 – Henry James pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1870. Events *January 19 – Ivan Turgenev attends and writes about the public execution by guillotine of the spree killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann outside the gates of La Roquette Prisons in Paris. *March 7 – Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford, in Cornwall. *March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's ''The Bowery Detective'' in ''The Fireside Companion'' (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word ''detective'' in the title. *April–September – The serialisation of Charles Dickens' last novel, ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'', is left unfinished on his death on June 9 at Gads Hill Place in Kent, from a stroke, aged 58. *May – Karl May begins a second four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds, at Waldheim, Saxony. *Spring – Serial publication begins of Aleksis Kivi's only novel ''Seitsemän veljestä'' ("Seven Brothers"), the first notable novel in the Finn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 In Literature
Events from the year 1868 in literature . Events *January – Émile Zola defends his first major novel, ''Thérèse Raquin'' (1867), against charges of pornography and corruption of morals. * January 4–August 8 – Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel ''The Moonstone: a Romance'' is serialised in '' All the Year Round'' (U.K.), being published in book format in July by Tinsley Brothers of London. It is seen as a precursor of full-length mystery fiction (with its introduction of the police detective Sergeant Cuff) and the psychological thriller. * January 9 – John William De Forest, writing for ''The Nation'', calls for a more specifically American literature; the essay's title, "The Great American Novel", is the first known use of the term. *April 29 – The Court of King's Bench (England) decides on appeal the legal case ''Regina v. Hicklin'' on interpretation of the word "obscene" in the Obscene Publications Act 1857, applying the " Hicklin test": that any part of a public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Des Familles
''Musée des familles'' (''"Museum of Families"'') was an illustrated French literary magazine that was published in Paris from 1833 to 1900. It was founded by Émile de Girardin. Contributors of the magazine included Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Jules Verne, and Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 179 .... The magazine was subtitled ''Lectures du soir'' (''"Readings in the Evening"''). External links * Issues o''Musée des familles''in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF 1833 establishments in France 1900 disestablishments in France Defunct literary magazines published in France French-language magazines Magazines established in 1833 Magazines disestablished in 1900 Magazines published in Paris {{Europe-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1860 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1860. Events *January **The first issue of the ''Cornhill Magazine'' appears in London. It serializes Anthony Trollope's '' Framley Parsonage'' throughout the year. ** Mrs. Henry Wood's "sensation novel" '' East Lynne'' begins serialization in ''The New Monthly Magazine''. Her first full-length novel, ''Danesbury House'', also appears this year. **Approximate date – The Catholic newspaper ''L'Univers'' is suppressed by the French government. *January 28 – The first of Charles Dickens' literary sketches generally titled ''The Uncommercial Traveller'' appears in his magazine '' All the Year Round''. *February – Mary Elizabeth Braddon gives up her acting career to write. In the same year she meets her future husband John Maxwell. *March 27 – The Irish melodrama ''The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen'', written by and starring Dion Boucicault, is first performed at Miss Laura Keene's t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Choler
Adolphe Joseph Choler (1821 – 19 January 1889) was a French playwright and librettist who was born in and died in Paris. He was Saint-Agnan Choler's brother. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian venues of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre du Gymnase-dramatique etc. He was managing director of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal from 1868 to 1879. Works *1842: ''Eva ou le Grillon du foyer'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Saint-Yves *1847: ''Mademoiselle Grabutot'', vaudeville in one act, with Saint-Yves *1848: ''Candide ou Tout est pour le mieux'', conte mêlé de couplets in 3 acts and 5 tableaux, with Clairville and Saint-Yves *1848: ''La république de Platon'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Saint-Yves *1849: ''Madame veuve Larifla'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Labiche *1849: ''Le Marquis de Carabas et la princesse Fanfreluche'', tale by Perrault in 1 act, mixed with dist ... [...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] |
