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Jean-Baptiste-Rose-Bonaventure Violet D'Épagny
Jean-Baptiste-Rose-Bonaventure Violet d'Épagny (30 August 1787 – 4 November 1868) was a French playwright, poet, journalist and writer. Biography He studied at Dijon, then moved to Paris to study law. An employee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he became a lawyer after the upheaval of the Imperial Government. An editor in several newspapers, he made his debut at the Théâtre-Français in 1819 with a three-act in verses comedy, ''L’École des Exagérés''. A managing director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon (1841), his plays were performed on the most significant Parisian stages of his time: Odéon, Comédie-Française, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin etc. He was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur 4 March 1831. Works *1819 : ''L’École des Exagérés'', comedy in three acts and in verse, *1820 : ''Les Rivaux de village ou La cruche cassée'', opéra comique in one act, with Corvey *1825 : ''Luxe et indigence ou le Ménage parisien'', comedy in 5 acts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray, Haute-Saône
Gray () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France. It has a population of 5,553 inhabitants (2019).Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019 INSEE Geography Gray is situated on the banks of the river . It is the last major town in Haute-Saône before the Saône flows into |
Michele Enrico Carafa
Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano (17 November 1787 – 26 July 1872) was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858. One of his notable pupils was Achille Peri. Life and work Michele Enrico was born the second son of Giovanni House of Carafa, Carafa, prince of Colubrano and Duchy_of_Alvito, duke of Alvito, and princess Teresa Lembo. He was given a solid musical education. In 1802, he composed his first opera, ''Il Fantasma'', which was staged at the theater of his father-in-law, prince of Caramanico, in 1805. He moved in 1806 to Paris, where he was taught composition by Luigi Cherubini and piano by Friedrich Kalkbrenner. However, pressured by his father to give up music for a military career, he became a lieutenant of the Hussar#Hussars_of_the_Revolutionary_and_Napoleonic_Wars, hussars in Nap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Journalists
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 (Roman numerals, MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (Roman numerals, MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The Industrial Revolution, 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 Gunpowder empires, Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Poets
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 large ... [...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] |
Louis Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography Born in Orléans, Louis Gustave Vapereau studied philosophy at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' from 1838 to 1843, writing his thesis on Pascal's ''Pensées'' under the supervision of Victor Cousin. He taught philosophy at Tours until the establishment of the Second French Empire in 1852, when his republican principles cost him his position. Vapereau returned to Paris to study law, and in 1854 joined the French bar. He did not engage in any legal practice and returned to writing shortly afterwards. In 1858, he published the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and from 1859 to 1869 he edited the ''L'Année littéraire et dramatique''. After the collapse of the Empire, Vapereau was appointed prefect of Cantal on 14 September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oratorio
An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is musical theatre, while oratorio is strictly a concert piece – though oratorios are sometimes staged as operas, and operas are sometimes presented in concert form. In an oratorio, the choir often plays a central role, and there is generally little or no interaction between the characters, and no props or elaborate costumes. A particularly important difference is in the typical subject matter of the text. Opera tends to deal with history and mythology, including age-old devices of romance, deception, and murder, whereas the plot of an oratorio often deals with sacred topics, making it appropriate for performance in the church. Protestant composers took their stories from the Bible, while Catholic composers looked to the lives of saints, as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Horace Meyer
Henri Horace Meyer (17 May 1801 – 2 February 1870) was a 19th-century French dramatist and novelist. Managing director of the Théâtre de la Gaîté from 1839 to 1847, his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté. In 1839, he witnessed the attack on 12 and 13 May. ''Cour des pairs. Attentat des 12 et 13 mai 1839'', Read his testimony online Works *1834: ''Le Doigt de Dieu'', drama in 1 act *1836: ''Amazampo, ou la Découverte du quinquina'', drama in 4 acts and 7 tableaux *1836: ''L'Empereur et le soldat, ou le 5 mai 1821'', souvenirs contemporains *1837: ''La fille d'un militaire'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Laurencin *1837: ''Richard Moor'', drama in 4 acts, preceded by ''Une heure trop tard'', prologue in 1 act *1838: ''Samuel le marchand'', drama in 5 acts, with Louis Gabriel Montigny *1838: ''Candinot, roi de Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Antier
Benjamin Antier, real name Benjamin Chevrillon, (21 March 1787 – 25 April 1870), was a 19th-century French playwright. An author of melodramas and vaudevilles written in collaboration with other dramatists, he is mostly known for his drama ''L'Auberge des Adrets'', premiered in 1823. The play featured the villain Robert Macaire, played on stage by Frédérick Lemaître, who, in 1835, wrote with Antier a second play called ''Robert Macaire''. The character was then popularized by Daumier's caricatures to become, after James Rousseau's word in his ''Physiologie du Robert Macaire'', "the embodiment of our positive, selfish, greedy, liar, boastful era... basically blagueuse. In 1945, ''L'Auberge des Adrets'' would be the basis of Marcel Carné's film, ''Children of Paradise'', with Jean-Louis Barrault and Arletty. Most of his plays were signed "Benjamin", as it was then customary for melodrama writers and actors to make them known by their first names. He was made chevalier de la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théodore Baudouin D'Aubigny
Jean-Marie-Théodore Baudouin also d’Aubigny, born in Paris 19 August 1786 - died 1866, was a French playwright. Theatre * ''La Pie voleuse'', a play in collaboration with Louis-Charles Caigniez, based on an authentic event. Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 29 April 1815. The play later served as the base for the 1817 opera ''La gazza ladra'' by Rossini. * ''Le Barbier de la cité ou Un pied dans l'abîme'', melodrama in 3 acts and in prose, ballets by Frédéric-Auguste Blache, music by Louis Alexandre Piccinni, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 22 August 1816; * ''Les Paratonnerres ou les Bulles de savon'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Boirie, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 21 November 1821; * ''Chacun son numéro ou le Petit Homme gris'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Carmouche and Boirie, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 6 December 1821 ; * ''Le Lépreux de la vallée d'Aoste'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Hyacinthe Decomberousse and Jean-Toussa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Decomberousse
Alexis Decomberousse, full name Alexis Barbe Benoît Decomberousse, (13 January 1793 – 22 November 1862) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevillist. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century such as the Théâtre de l'Ambigu, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du Gymnase, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin etc.). Works * ''Le Cocher de fiacre'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Benjamin Antier, 1825 * ''Le Pauvre de l'Hôtel-Dieu'', mélodrama in 3 acts, with Antier, 1826 * ''Le Prisonnier amateur'', comedy mingled with couplets, with Armand d'Artois, Ferdinand Laloue and Frédérick Lemaître, 1826 * ''Le Vieil Artiste, ou la Séduction'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Frédérick Lemaître, 1826 * ''Le Fou'', drama in 3 acts, with Antony Béraud and Gustave Drouineau, 1829 * ''La Maîtresse'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Hippolyte Le Roux and Merville, 1829 * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
