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Eugène Hyacinthe Laffillard
Eugène Hyacinthe Laffillard (17 June 1779 – 5 January 1846) was a 19th-century French playwright and chansonnier. A president of the Caveau Moderne in 1839, he participated to numerous literary publications such as the ''Courrier des Théâtres'', ''La Nouveauté'', the ''Observateur'', the ''Voleur'' and ''La France littéraire''. He wrote many vaudevilles under his name or the pen name Eugène Décour. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre du Panthéon, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre des Variétés etc. Works *1802: ''L'Amour au village'', opéra-vaudeville in 1 act *1802: ''Elina et Natalie, ou les Hongrois'', drama in 3 acts, translated by Kotzebue *1803: ''La Sifflomanie'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, with Grétry *1804: ''Le Hameau de Chantilly ou Le Retour'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act *1805: ''Un peu de méchanceté'', comedy in 1 act ... [...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] |
Edmond Rochefort
Edmond Rochefort, full name Claude-Louis-Marie de Rochefort-Luçay (Évaux-les-Bains, 1790 – Paris, April 1871), was a French writer, dramatist, vaudevillist and songs writer. His only play that was met with some success is ''Jocko ou le Singe du Brésil'', presented at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris. He was son of Lieutenant-Colonel François-Louis, comte de Rochefort, and his wife, Catherine-Françoise le Bel de la Voreille. Rochefort wrote a book, ''Mémoires d'un vaudevilliste'' in which he recounts his adventures in La Réunion and the literary relationships he had with some writers of his time. In 1819 he was private secretary of Monsieur Millius, Governor of the Reunion Island. But lacking the necessary training, he returned to France in 1822 to marry Marie-Nicole Morel. He also authored a report ''Sur l'Ile de Bourbon et de Madagascar'' which was delivered to the Minister of the Navy and the original of which is in the O.M Archives in Aix-en-Provence. He had 4 chi ... [...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] |
Lubize
Lubize, real name Pierre-Michel Martin or Martin-Lubize (21 February 1798 (3 ventôse an VI) registre des naissances de l'an VI pour la ville de Bayonne, Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques. – 28 January 1863 Acte n°125 () registre des décès de l'année 1863 pour le 9e arrondissement, Archives numérisées de la Ville de Paris.) was a 19th-century French |
Pierre-Joseph Charrin
Pierre-Joseph Charrin (2 February 1784 – 25 April 1863) was a 19th-century French poet, chansonnier, playwright and goguettier. He was a member of the '' Caveau moderne'' and founder, in 1813, of the '' Soupers de Momus''.Charrin annonce sa qualité de fondateur des ''Soupers de Momus'' on the cover of the Album poétique, ou Choix de romances et de chansons des auteurs les plus connus, recueillies par J.-P. Charrin, Membre de plusieurs Académies, Convive, Fondateur des Soupers de Momus.' The initials of the two names have been reversed here by mistake. 14 August 1814, he was received in the '' Caveau lyonnais''. On that occasion he wrote reception couplets. In 1815, in collaboration with César de Proisy d'Eppe, Alexis Eymery, René Perrin and Joseph Tastu, he was one of the five editors of the ''Dictionnaire des girouettes, ou Nos contemporains peints d'après eux-mêmes ... par une société de girouettes...''' This 444 pages book which stigmatized the opportunists of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extravaganza
An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure. It sometimes also has elements of cabaret, circus, revue, variety, vaudeville and mime. ''Extravaganza'' may more broadly refer to an elaborate, spectacular, and expensive theatrical production. 19th-century British dramatist, James Planché, was known for his extravaganzas. Planché defined the genre as "the whimsical treatment of a poetical subject."Planché. ''The recollections and reflections of J.R. Planché (Somerset herald): a professional biography'' (1872), Vol. II, p. 43 The term is derived from the Italian word ''stravaganza'', meaning extravagance. See also *Spectacle *Victorian burlesque Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian era, Victorian Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amable De Saint-Hilaire
Amable Vilain de Saint-Hilaire (born 30 November 1799) was a French dramatist whose plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre de la Renaissance etc. Œuvres *1820: ''Écoutons ! ! !'', scènes improvisées, on the occasion of the birth of H.R.H. Mgr the duke of Bordeaux, with Emmanuel Lepeintre *1820: ''La pièce d'emprunt ou le compilateur'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Edmond Crosnier, 1820 *1821: ''Jocrisse paria'', tragédie burlesque in 1 act and in verses, with Crosnier *1821: ''Le Solitaire ou l'Exilé du mont Sauvage'', melodrama in three acts, à grand spectacle *1822: ''La Fille à marier ou La Double éducation'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Ferdinand Laloue and Constant Ménissier *1822: ''Le Meurtrier, ou le Dévouement filial'', historical melodrama in 3 acts, à spectacle, with Crosnier *1823: ''La Chasse au renard'', vaudevill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Lepeintre
Emmanuel Lepeintre, real name Emmanuel Augustin Lepeintre called Lepeintre jeune or Lepeintre Cadet, (22 September 1790 – 24 February 1847) was a French stage actor, chansonnier and playwright. Biographie He began his acting career aged ten at the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes in the role of Cassandra in ''Hasard corrigé par l'amour'', a vaudeville by Philidor Rochelle. A comic actor at the Théâtre des Variétés and at the Théâtre du Vaudeville from 1818 to 1843, he played the role of Dugazon in ''Le duel et le déjeuner ou Les comédiens joués'' by Mélesville (1818) and also that of Hamelin in ''La famille improvisée'' by Nicolas Brazier (1840). He was famous for his obesity and his bons mots. Gérard de Nerval, ''Œuvres'', vol.1, Gallimard, 1960, (p. 1441) Works *1814: ''La fête de famille'', opéra-vaudeville, impromptu, in 1 act and free verse *1820: ''Le Cirque Bojolay, ou Pleuvra-t-il ? ne pleuvra-t-il pas ?'', à propos-parodie-vaudeville in 1 act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault ( , also , ; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was an iconic French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book ''Histoires ou contes du temps passé'' (''Stories or Tales from Past Times''). The best known of his tales include ''Le Petit Chaperon Rouge'' ("Little Red Riding Hood"), ''Cendrillon'' ("Cinderella"), ''Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté'' ("Puss in Boots"), ''La Belle au bois dormant'' ("Sleeping Beauty"), and ''Barbe Bleue'' ("Bluebeard"). Some of Perrault's versions of old stories influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later. The stories continue to be printed and have been adapted to most entertainment formats. Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-André Jacquelin
Jacques-André Jacquelin (18 March 1776 – 13 August 1827) was a French playwright, lyricist, chansonnier, goguettier and poet. Biography A chief clerk at the Ministry of War, he became inspector of secondary theaters of Paris. Jacquelin authored about forty plays, all of which are now long forgotten, and the ''Dictionnaire historique abrégé des hommes célèbres depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours''. He was a member of the of which he became general secretary in 1815. Works ;Theatre * ''La Nièce de ma tante Aurore, ou la Manie des romans'', one-act comedy, Paris, Théâtre de la rue de Thionville, 7 March 1794 * ''Les Fureurs de l'amour'', tragédie burlesque in 7 scenes and in verse, with Joseph-Henri Flacon Rochelle, Paris, Jeunes-Artistes, 9 June 1798 * ''Jean La Fontaine'', comédie anecdotique in 1 act and i prose, mingled with vaudevilles, Paris, Jeunes-Artistes, 23 September 1798 * ''L’Enfant de l’amour'', suite des ''Fureurs de l’amou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Imbert
Jean-Baptiste Auguste Imbert (3 March 1791, in Paris – 1840, in Brussels) was a 19th-century French playwright, bookseller, publisher, historian, chansonnier and journalist. Biography He first worked in various jurisdictions before being named secretary in November 1816 of the Joint Committee established near the Prussian army in France. After the departure of the Allies, he became a bookseller in Paris and also published under the pseudonyms "De Saint-Eugène", "Rossignol", "Passe-Partout" or simply "Auguste". On 4 January 1827, he was sentenced to a 595 francs fine and costs by the Criminal Court of the Seine department for defamation and incitement to hatred and contempt to King's government for his work ''Biographie des imprimeurs et des libraires''. All the same, he had trouble with the law for his book ''Mon rêve, ou le gouvernement des animaux'' (1828). Banished, he moved to Brussels where he ended his life. Moreover, Imbert was editor in different literary journ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Auguste Gombault
Paul Auguste Gombault (21 January 1786 in Orléans – 1853) was a 19th-century French playwright. His plays were presented at the Théâtre Comte, the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques and the Théâtre de la Gaîté. Works *1806: ''La Revue des Gobe-Mouches, ou, les visites du jour de l'an'', one-act folie-épisodique, in vaudevilles, with Alexandre Fursy *1816: ''Le Soldat d'Henri IV'', one-act play, mingled with vaudevilles *1823: ''Le Petit chaperon rouge'', conte en action mingled with couplets, with Étienne-Junien de Champeaux *1823: ''Le Petit clerc'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Charles-Maurice Descombes *1824: ''Les Sœurs de lait'', scènes morales, mingled with couplets, with Eugène Hyacinthe Laffillard *1824: ''Le Tambour de Logrono, ou Jeunesse et valeur'', one-act historical tableau, mingled with couplets, with Pierre Capelle *1825: ''Le Couronnement au village, ou la Route de Reims'', à propos mingled with couplets, with Laffillard *1825: ''Croi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
