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Jules De Wailly
Jules de Wailly, full name Augustin Jules de Wailly (12 September 1806 – 12 July 1866) was a 19th-century French playwright. He was Gustave de Wailly, Gustave and Léon de Wailly's brother. The son of Étienne-Augustin de Wailly, and grandson of Noël François de Wailly, an official at the Interior Ministry (1840), his Play (theatre), plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Comédie-Française, the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique, and the Théâtre du Vaudeville. Works *1839: ''Le Comité de bienfaisance'', comedy in 1 act, with Charles Duveyrier *1841: ''La Maschera'', opéra comique in 2 acts *1843: ''Un Péché de jeunesse'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with song, with Joseph Isidore Samson *1844: ''Le Mari à la campagne'', comedy in 3 acts, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard *1844: ''Un Amant malheureux'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts *1845: ''Deux compag ... [...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] |
Opéra Comique
''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne),M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet and Richard Langham Smith"Opéra comique" '' Grove Music Online''. Oxford Music Online. 19 November 2009 which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections. Associated with the Paris theatre of the same name, ''opéra comique'' is not necessarily comical or shallow in nature; '' Carmen'', perhaps the most famous ''opéra comique'', is a tragedy. Use of the term The term ''opéra comique'' is complex in meaning and cannot simply be translated as "comic opera". The genre originated in the early 18th century with humorous and satirical plays performed at the theatres of the Paris fairs which contained songs ('' vaudevilles''), with new words set to already existing music. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1806 Births
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19th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
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Joseph Marie Quérard
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Henrion
Paul Henrion, (20 July 1819 – 24 October 1901 ) was a 19th-century French composer. President of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique of which he was a co-founder with Victor Parizot and Ernest Bourget, he was also a goguettier, member of the . In a panorama of the world of songs published in 1882 in ''Le Figaro'', the journalist considered him "a first-rate artist whose romances for salons were famous". Henrion sometimes signed his compositions under the pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ... Henri Charlemagne. References French composers Musicians from Paris 1819 births 1901 deaths {{France-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germain Delavigne
Louis Marie Germain Delavigne (1 February 1790 – 3 November 1868) was a French playwright and librettist. Delavigne was born in Giverny to Louis-Augustin-Anselme Delavigne, a surveyor of the French royal forests, and his wife. He was the brother of Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843) who was also destined for a theatrical career. A frequent collaborator of Eugène Scribe, Delavigne was involved in the creation of the libretti of two of the earliest grand operas, Daniel Auber's ''La muette de Portici'' (1828) and Giacomo Meyerbeer's ''Robert le diable'' (1831). Amongst his later libretti were those for Fromental Halévy's '' Charles VI'' (1843) (co-authored with his brother Casimir) and Charles Gounod's ''La nonne sanglante'' (1854).Smith (n.d.). Delavigne died at Montmorency, Val-d'Oise Montmorency () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Montmorency was the fief of the Montmorency family, one of the oldest and most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Joseph Overnay
Armand Joseph Overnay (1 November 1798 – 14 September 1869) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright. He was a son of the chansonnier Nicolas Jean Marie Overnay (born in 1769), one of the members of the Soupers de Momus, and an examiner of dramatic works. Armand Joseph Overnay's plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Gymnase, and the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Antoine. Works *1819: ''Les Bolivars et les Morillos'', caricatures in action, in 1 act mingled with vaudevilles, with Gabriel de Lurieu *1820: ''Le Mari confident'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Jean Berrier and E. F. Varez *1821: ''L'Épicurien malgré lui'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Berrier *1823: ''Les Deux Lucas'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Berrier *1823: ''Fanny'', melodrama in 3 acts, xtravaganza, with Lamarque de Saint-Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lockroy
Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (February 17, 1803 – January 19, 1891) in '''', 20 January 1891 was a French actor and playwright. Life Born in as the son of Baron General Henri Simon, who forbade his son's use of his surname in an artistic career, Joseph-Philippe Simon began as an actor under the pseudonym Lockroy at the and the |
Joseph Isidore Samson
Joseph Isidore Samson (2 July 1793 – 28 March 1871) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. Life Samson was born at Saint-Denis, near Paris, the son of a restaurateur. He took first prize for comedy at the Conservatoire in 1812, married an actress with whom he had toured in France, and joined the Comédie-Française in 1826. There he remained until 1863, creating more than 250 parts. In 1829 Samson became a professor at the Conservatoire, under whom Rachel Félix (1821–1858), Rose Cheri (1824–1861), the Brohans and others were trained. He wrote several comedies, among them ''La Belle-Mère et le gendre'' (1826), and ''La Famille poisson'' (1846). Samson died in Paris on 28 March 1871.In French: BnRetrieved 19 May 2016./ref> Works ;Theatre *''La Fête de Molière'', comédie épisodique in 1 act and in verse, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 15 January 1825 *''La Belle-mère et le gendre'', comedy in 3 acts, in verse, Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, 20 April 1826 *''Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Duveyrier
Charles Duveyrier (12 April 1803 – 10 November 1866) was a French playwright and Saint-Simonianism ideologist, born on April 12, 1803 in Paris, where he died on November 10, 1866. Biography A son of Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier and half-brother of the dramatist Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier known as Mélesville, with whom Charles Duveyrier partnered several times; but he is best known as an adept and propagator of the Saint-Simonian doctrines. Duveyrier was the father of the Saint-Simonian traveller and geographer Henri Duveyrier. In addition to the publications of that school of thought, Duveyrier published several texts including ''l’Avenir et les Bonaparte'' (1864). In collaboration with Eugène Scribe, Duveyrier wrote the libretto for ''I vespri siciliani'' by Giuseppe Verdi from their work ''Le duc d'Albe'', which was written in 1838 and offered to Halévy and Donizetti before Verdi agreed to set it to music in 1854. Duveyrier is buried in the Père Lachaise Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
