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Ferdinand De Villeneuve
Ferdinand de Villeneuve (5 June 1801 – 27 September 1858) was a 19th-century French playwright. Short biography He made his debut in the theatre at the age of 21 by partnering with Charles Dupeuty, and began to be successful from 1823 onwards. In 1825, he founded the newspaper ''La Nouveauté'' with Dupeuty, Amable de Saint-Hilaire and Musnier Desclozeaux, a publication which became a daily. Co-director of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin with Anténor Joly from December 1835, he then directed, still with Joly, the Théâtre de la Renaissance in 1838 with its own funds. His plays were presented on several 19th-century Parisian stages, including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre des Variétés. The painter and photographer Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was his brother. Works *1822: ''L'Arracheur de dents'', one-act folie-parade, mingled with couplets, with Charles Dupeuty *1822: ''Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodrama
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action. Characters are often flat, and written to fulfill stereotypes. Melodramas are typically set in the private sphere of the home, focusing on morality and family issues, love, and marriage, often with challenges from an outside source, such as a "temptress", a scoundrel, or an aristocratic villain. A melodrama on stage, filmed, or on television is usually accompanied by dramatic and suggestive music that offers cues to the audience of the drama being presented. In scholarly and historical musical contexts, ''melodramas'' are Victorian dramas in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action. The term is now also applied to stage performances without incidental music, novels, films, tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Masson
Auguste-Michel-Benoît Gaudichot pseudonym: Michel Masson (31 July 1800 – 12 thermidor an VIII- – 23 April 1883) was a French playwright, journalist and novelist of the 19th century. Biography A worker's son, he began acting at age 10 and played the roles of children in several plays. He was danser at the Théâtre Monthabor, but he had only little success. So he stopped as a danser, and took a job as an apprentice in a bookshop. There he saw other starting authors like M.Champfleury. Masson liked reading books, and he started writing too. But he did not like the commercial side of his job. He worked a time as a café waiter. Masson started writing articles for newspapers, the quality of his work was recognized, and articles of his hand were published in newspapers like ''Les Nouveautés'', the ''Mercure de France'' and ''La Lorgnette''. (journal des théâtres, de la littérature, des arts, des moeurs, des modes et de la librairie, pour Paris, les départemens et l'étrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Simonnin
Antoine Simonnin, full name Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Simonnin, (Paris, 11 January 1780 – Paris, 14 May 1856) was a 19th-century French writer and dramatist. Simonnin wrote, alone or in collaboration, more than 200 comédies en vaudeville, parodies or fantaisies. He also published a collection of ''Chansons sacrées et profanes'' (1856, in-18). Works (alphabetical order) * ''Arlequin au café du bosquet, ou la Belle limonadière'', vaudeville épisodique, in 1 act; * ''Augusta, ou Comme on corrige une jeune personne'', two-act comédie en vaudeville, Théâtre des jeunes élèves de M. Louis Comte, 5 December 1832; * ''Belz et Buth'', folie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Hilpert, Théâtre du Panthéon, 21 August 1839; * ''Caroline de Litchfield'', drame-vaudeville in 2 acts and in prose, with Brazier and Carmouche Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 10 February 1827; * ''Catherine II, ou l'Impératrice et le cosaque'', play in 2 acts, extravaganza, mingled with couplets, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Scribe
Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of many of the most successful grand operas and opéras-comiques. Born to a middle-class Parisian family, Scribe was intended for a legal career, but was drawn to the theatre, and began writing plays while still in his teens. His early years as a playwright were unsuccessful, but from 1815 onwards he prospered. Writing, usually with one or more collaborators, he produced several hundred stage works. He wrote to entertain the public rather than educate it. Many of his plays were written in a formulaic manner which aimed at neatness of plot and focus on dramatic incident rather than naturalism, depth of characterisation or intellectual substance. For this he was much criticised by intellectuals, but the "well-made play" remained established in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Féerie
''Féerie'', sometimes translated as "fairy play", was a French theatrical genre known for fantasy plots and spectacular visuals, including lavish scenery and mechanically worked stage effects. ''Féeries'' blended music, dancing, pantomime, and acrobatics, as well as magical transformations created by designers and stage technicians, to tell stories with clearly defined melodrama-like morality and an extensive use of supernatural elements. The genre developed in the early 19th century and became immensely popular in France throughout the nineteenth century, influencing the development of burlesque, musical comedy and film. Style ''Féeries'' used a fairy-tale aesthetic to combine theatre with music, dances, mime, acrobatics, and especially spectacular visual effects created by innovative stage machinery, such as trap doors, smoke machines, and quickly changeable sets. Songs always appeared, usually featuring new lyrics to familiar melodies. Transformation scenes, in which a sce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Émile Vanderburch
Louis-Émile Vanderburch (30 September 1794 – 30 March 1862) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. The painter Dominique Joseph Vanderburch (1722–1785) was his grandfather. Biography After he started a career in teaching as a professor of history, Vanderburch turned to literature and more specifically to theatre. From 1816, he authored more than a hundred theatre plays, some of which were met with great success. From 1836 to 1853, he lived in the of La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin (Loiret) which now houses the city hall of this town of 10,000 inhabitants. Works ;Theatre (selection) *1835: ''Jacques II'' *1836: ''Le Gamin de Paris'' *1838: ''Clermont, ou Une femme d'artiste'' (with Eugène Scribe) *1846: ''Une nuit au Louvre'' *1854: ''Le Sanglier des Ardennes'' *1855: ''Le sergent Frédéric'', comédie en vaudevilles (with Dumanoir) *1863: ''Peau d'âne'' ;Other *1816: ''L'Épingle noire'' *1847: ''Scènes contemporaines laissées par Madame la Vicomtesse de Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Pittaud De Forges
Auguste Pittaud de Forges (5 April 1803 (15 germinal an XI) – 28 September 1881,) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography His full name was Philippe-Auguste-Alfred Pittaud. He began his literary career under the pseudonyms Deforges, de Forge or Desforges. In 1861, he was authorized by imperial decree to officially join to his family name that of de Forges,Georges d'Heylli, ÂPittaud de Forges», ''Dictionnaire des pseudonymes'', Dentu, Paris, 1887, (p. 353), at Gallica. He also used the pen name Paul de Lussan He wrote many vaudevilles in collaboration with Adolphe de Leuven, Emmanuel Théaulon, Jean-François Bayard, Louis-Émile Vanderburch, Clairville, Adrien Robert, as well as librettos of several opéras comiques and operettas for Jacques Offenbach such as '' L'alcôve'', opéra comique in 1 act (1847), ''Luc et Lucette'', opéra comique in 1 act (1854), ''Paimpol et Périnette'', saynète in 1 act (1855), '' Le 66'', operetta in 1 act (1856), ''Le ... [...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 awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desvergers
Desvergers, real name Armand-Sacré Chapeau, (1794 – 3rd arrondissement of Paris 26 June 1851 ) was a 19th-century French playwright Biography Little is known about Desvergers's life except the few lines that were dedicated to him by the media, in particular on the occasion of his death, as in ''Le Nouvelliste'' 1 July 1851: It is also known that he married Hélène-Elisa Rachel, 12 December 1822 in the 10th and had at least one son, Étienne-Armand-Albert, born 27 March 1827, Works He wrote over a hundred vaudevilles, alone or in collaboration, between 1824 and 1848. * 1824 (3 August): ''L'Anneau de Gygès'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act with Arago at the Théâtre du Vaudeville * 1826 (9 March): ''Lia, ou une Nuit d'absence'', drama-vaudeville in 2 acts with Arago at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, au bénéfice des incendiés de Salins * 1827 (16 June): ''L'Avocat'', melodrama in 3 acts and extravaganza with Arago at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique * 1827 (27 July ... [...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] |
Saintine
Xavier Boniface Saintine (10 July 1798 – 21 January 1865) was a French dramatist and novelist. Biography He was born Joseph Xavier Boniface in Paris in 1798. In 1823, he produced a volume of poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled ''Poèmes, odes, épîtres''. In 1836 appeared '' Picciola'', a novel about the Count de Charney, a political prisoner in Piedmont, whose reason was saved by his cultivation of a tiny flower growing between the paving stones of his prison yard. This story is a masterpiece of the sentimental kind, and has been translated into many European languages.''The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information'', 11th ed. The novel earned him renown and came to be regarded as a classic of French literature.Garnett, Richard, ed. (1899). ''The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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