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Henri De Tully
Jules-Henry de Tully (1 May 1798 – 12 July 1846) was a French librettist and playwright. Life A deputy Commissioner of the king at the Monnaie de Paris, a member of the Société Lyrique, an administrator of the Théâtre du Luxembourg, he was co-founder of the Théâtre Beaumarchais (1835) with Théodore Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve. His theatre plays, often signed with the collective pseudonym ''Charles Henri'' were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Antoine, and the Théâtre du Vaudeville. An editor at ''La Psyché'', he also authored several songs.Quérard, op.cit. Works *1822: ''Les Dames Martin, ou le Mari, la femme et la veuve'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Gabriel-Alexandre Belle *1825: ''L'Exilé'', vaudeville in 2 acts, after ''Old Mortality'' by Walter Scott, with Théodore Anne and Achille d'Artois *1827: ''Le Mari par intérim'', comédie ... [...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] |
Félix-Auguste Duvert
Félix-Auguste Duvert (12 January 1795 – 19 October 1876) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevillist. Biography Félix-Auguste Duvert was first a soldier. A volunteer in 1811 among the riflemen of the young guard, he then was part of a regiment of dragoons that he left only after the dismissal of the Armée de la Loire. In 1823, he made his debut as a playwright at the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique with ''Les Frères de lait'', a one-act comédie en vaudeville cowritten with Édouard Nicole. He would afterwards collaborate primarily with Paul Duport, Saintine, Étienne Arago, Charles Dupeuty and Charles Varin. But from 1830, his name was inseparably linked to that of his son in law, Augustin de Lauzanne. The latter's share in the development of their works was the backbone of the plot, the outlining of the characters and imagination of the '' quiproquos''. The duo would produce a very great number of successful "follies" for over forty years. Duvert also wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
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French Librettists
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Joseph-Marie Quérard
Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the first volumes of his great work, ''La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, &c.'' (14 vols., 1826–1842). This bibliography dealt with the 18th and early 19th centuries, and he was enabled to complete it by a government subsidy granted by Guizot in 1830, and using the assistance of the Russian bibliophile Serge Poltoratzky Serge Poltoratzky (alternate spellings: Sergei or Sergey and Poltoratsky, Poltoratskii or Poltoratskiy), 1803-1884, was a Russian literary scholar, bibliophile and humanitarian. His major literary work was the ''Dictionary of Russian Authors'', whi .... His final volume of contemporary French literature, with which he hoped to complete his work, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand-Numa Jautard
Armand-Numa Jautard was a 19th-century French playwright and chansonnier who died after 1872. he was still a member of the Société des auteur dramatiques in 1872. His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre des Variétés etc. Works *1835: ''Deux pour un, ou le Bigame'', vaudeville in one act *1842: ''La Peur du mal'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Albéric Second *1844: ''Les petits mystères du jardin Mabille dévoilés'', 3 vols., with Max Revel *1844: ''L'École d'un fat'', comedy in one act and in prose, with Marie de L'Épinay *1848: ''Les Fils de Télémaque'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Henri de Tully *1851: ''Les Giboulées'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Amédée de Jallais *1851: ''Un Monsieur qui n'a pas d'habit'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Montjoye *1852: ''Un Mari d'occasion'', comedy in one act, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumanoir
Philippe François Pinel, known as Dumanoir (31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865), was a French playwright and librettist. Biography Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe. He was the son of Mrs. Pinel-Dumanoir, whose family planted the palm trees lining the ''Allée Dumanoir'' in Guadeloupe. He left Guadeloupe in 1816. Dumanoir wrote in the theatrical genre of Comédie en vaudevilles. He was director of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1837 to 1839. In 1844, he wrote in collaboration with Adolphe d'Ennery, an eponymous drama about Don César de Bazan, one of the characters in ''Ruy Blas'' by Victor Hugo. He died in Pau. List of major works Plays * 1842: ''Le Chevalier d'Éon'', comedy in 3 acts, (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre des Variétés * 1839: ''Les Premières Armes de Richelieu'' (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre du Palais Royal * 1840: ''Indiana et Charlemagne'' (with Jean-François Bayard), Théâtre du Palais Royal * 1842: ''Ma maà ... [...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 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Salin
Nicolas Alphonse Salin (5 July 1798 – 6 June 1878) was a French playwright and chansonnier. Biography An employee at the Chancellery until 1830 and then at the Hôtel des Monnaies, Paris, where he became chief controller for coinage (1857), his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Antoine, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin etc. His songs were published in '' Le Caveau''. He was made a knight of the Legion of honour on 13 August 1861 Works *1823: ''L'Espagne délivrée'', cantata *1836: ''L'Amour et l'homéopathie'', vaudeville in 2 acts, with Adolphe Jadin and Henri de Tully *1839: ''Un cÅ“ur de livres de rente'', vaudeville n 1 act *1839: ''Une Matinée aux Prés Saint-Gervais'', vaudeville en un acte, with Alfred Bouet *1839: ''Une nièce d'Amérique'', vaudeville en 1 act *1839: ''Le Salon dans la mansarde'', vaudeville in 1 act *1840: ''Dodore en pénitence'', soliloquy-vaudeville in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Jadin
Adolphe Jadin (4 May 1794 – 2 November 1867) was a French journalist, chansonnier, librettist and playwright, the son of Louis Emmanuel Jadin. A bodyguard for Louis XVIII, then for Charles X, captain in the cavalry, his plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: the Théâtre Beaumarchais, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, Théâtre des Nouveautés, etc. Works *1814: ''Serment français'', 1814 *1823: ''Fanfan et Colas, ou les frères de lait'', opéra comique *1825: ''Ronde en l'honneur du sacre de Charles dix'', music by Louis-Emmanuel Jadin *1826: ''Le Pari'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Théodore Anne *1829: ''Le Vieux marin, ou Une campagne imaginaire'', vaudeville in 2 acts, with Théodore Anne and Emmanuel Théaulon *1830: ''Quoniam'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts *1831: ''Le Carnaval et les arrêts, ou La Famille impromptu'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act *1832: ''Souvenirs de France et d'à ... [...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] |
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