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Ernest Renaud
Ernest Renaud called Ernest (1799 - 3 July 1827 in Paris) was a French dramatist of the 19th century. His plays have been performed on the most prestigious Parisian stages during the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique etc. He died untimely aged 28.''Almanach des spectacles'', 1827, (p. 367) Works *1822 : ''La diligence attaquée, ou L'auberge des Cévennes'', with Ferdinand Laloue and Constant Ménissier *1822 : ''Un mois après la noce, ou le Mariage par intérêt'', 1 act comedy-vaudeville, with Ménissier *1823 : ''L'Antichambre d'un médecin'', episodic scenes sparsed with distics, with Ménissier *1823 : ''Les deux forçats'', 1 act foly, with Ménissier and Laloue *1823 : ''La Maison incendiée, ou les Enfants du charbonnier'', 1 act anecdotic melodrama, with Ménissier, 1823 *1823 : ''Le Précepteur dans l'embarras'', 1 act comedy-vaudeville, with Ménissier *1823 : ''Les Trois Trilby'', 1 act folie in p ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
Théâtre De L'Ambigu-Comique
The Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (, literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet. It was rebuilt in 1770 and 1786, but in 1827 was destroyed by fire. A new, larger theatre with a capacity of 2,000 as compared to the earlier 1,250 was built nearby on the boulevard Saint-Martin at its intersection with the rue de Bondy and opened the following year. The theatre was eventually demolished in 1966. History of the first theatre in the boulevard du Temple It was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple, originally known as the Promenades des Ramparts, in Paris by Nicolas-Médard Audinot, formerly a comedian of the Opéra-Comique, which he had left to become a puppet-master at the Paris fairs. Audinot had already been a success in one of the sites of the Saint-Germain Fair, where his large marionettes (called "bamboches") were in vogue. Under the name of his foun ... [...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] |
Constant Ménissier
Jean-Constant Menissier (1793 in Paris – 12 October 1878Édouard Noël, Edmond Stoullig, ''Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique'', vol.4, 1879, (p. 637)) was a 19th-century French playwright. His theatre plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Gymnase, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre des Célestins, Théâtre du Vaudeville etc. Works *1813: ''Les deux ermites ou La confidence'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, imitated from August von Kotzebue *1813: ''Le Château d'If'', comedy in 1 act and with vaudevilles *1819: ''La créole'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Delestre-Poirson *1819: ''Douvres et Calais, ou Partie et revanche'', comédie en vaudeville in 2 acts, with Emmanuel Théaulon, *1820: ''Caroline'', comédie en vaudeville in one act, with Eugène Scribe *1820: ''Les Folies du jour'', extravaganza in 1 act, in vaudevilles, with A. Martin and Thà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Martin
Alexandre Martin (27 April 1815 Р28 May 1895), nicknamed Albert l'Ouvrier ("Albert the Worker"), was a French socialist statesman of the French Second Republic. He was the first member of the industrial working class to be in French government. Early life Albert was born in Bury, in the Oise ''d̩partement'' to a peasant family. As a young man he moved to Paris, where he served as an apprentice in his uncle's machine shop; later, he worked as a machinist in a button factory. He participated in the July Revolution of 1830. Throughout his public life, he was known simply as "Albert the Worker," and was closely associated with the socialist Louis Blanc. He was a member of a variety of secret revolutionary societies in the 1830s and 1840s. He was made leader of the revolutionary ''Nouvelles Saisons'' society in 1839, and editor of the '' l'Atelier'' the following year. 1848 He fought on the barricades in the revolution of 1848, and was a member of the socialist government t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse De Chavanges
Alphonse de Chavanges (real name Alphonse de Bourlon) (4 June 1791 in Paris - 20 October 1831 in Paris) was a French officer and dramatist. Biography Stepbrother and aide-de-camp of Marshal Augereau, colonel and battalion chief, his plays have been performed on the most famous Parisian stages during the 19th century : Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre du Vaudeville etc. Works *1824: ''L'avocat et le médecin'', 1 act comedy, with Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle *1824: ''La Famille du charlatan'', 1 act folie-vaudeville, with Jouslin de La Salle and Maurice Alhoy *1824: ''Le colonel de Hussards'', 3 act melodrama, with Constant Ménissier *1824: ''Jane-Shore'', 3 act melodrama, with Jouslin de La Salle *1824: ''Le Passeport'', 1 act comedy-vaudeville, with Ménissier and Ernest Renaud *1825: ''Le Docteur d'Altona'', 3 act melodrama with tableaux, with Hyacinthe Decomberousse and Auguste Maillard *1828: ''Le vieil artiste, ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Alhoy
Philadelphe-Maurice Alhoy (1802 – 27 April 1856) was a 19th-century French journalist, writer and playwright, born and died in Paris. As journalist Under the Restauration and the July Monarchy, when "every day saw the birth of a new paper" (Eugène de Mirecourt), Maurice Alhoy founded ''Le Philanthrope'' (1825), "newspaper devoted to charity, morality and the public good.", ''Le Dandy'', ''Le Pauvre Jacques'' (1829), the ''Journal des familles'', the ''Gazette des enfants'', the ''Moniteur des gourmands'', ''L’Ours'' (1834), a newspaper written "by a company of beasts with beaks and nails". He was involved in the writing of several other journals, including a ''journal-vaudeville'', ''La Foire aux idées'' (1849). But he will remain above all as the creator, with Étienne Arago, of ''Le Figaro'' on 14 janvier 1826. The beginnings were difficult; the newspaper was sold two months later to Auguste Le Poitevin de L'Égreville, then to Victor Bohain who took over the responsibili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand-François Jouslin De La Salle
Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle, (15 September 1794 – 1 July 1863) was a French lawyer, journalist, dramatist and theatre director. Jouslin de La Salle was administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1832 to 1837, and then of the théâtre des Variétés in 1839. Theatre * ''Le Mûrier'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Jules Vernet 22 June 1819. * ''Les Deux Veuves ou les Contrastes'', comedy in 1 act, with Martial Aubertin, 10 April 1821. * ''Jane Shore'', melodrame en 3 acts, with Hyacinthe Decomberousse, Alphonse de Chavanges, 1824. * ''La Famille du charlatan'', folie vaudeville in 1 act, with Maurice de Chavanges, 12 October 1824. * ''L’École du scandale'', play in 3 acts and in prose, with Charles-R.-E. de Saint-Maurice, Edmond Crosnier, 8 December 1824. * ''Les Acteurs à l’auberge'', comedy in one act, with Maurice Alhoy and Francis Cornu, 28 May 1825. * ''La Corbeille de mariage ou les Étrennes du futur'', vaudeville in one act, with Maurice Alhoy and Léo ... [...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] |
1799 Births
Events January–June * January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound, to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars. * January 17 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. * January 21 – The Parthenopean Republic is established in Naples by French General Jean Étienne Championnet; King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies flees. * February 9 – Quasi-War: In the single-ship action of USS ''Constellation'' vs ''L'Insurgente'' in the Caribbean, the American ship is the victor. * February 28 – French Revolutionary Wars: Action of 28 February 1799 – British Royal Navy frigate HMS ''Sybille'' defeats the French frigate ''Forte'', off the mouth of the Hooghly River in the Bay of Bengal, but both captains are killed. * March 1 – Federalist James Ross becomes President pro tempore of the United States Senate. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
