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Louis Péricaud
Louis Jean Péricaud (10 June 1835, La Rochelle – 12 November 1909, Paris) was a 19th-century French stage actor, chansonnier, playwright, theatre historian and theatre director. He was the father of actress Berthe Jalabert (1858–c.1935) and the uncle of actor Gustave Hamilton (1871-1951). Works ;Selected plays: *1864: ''Le Diable au Havre'', grande revue-féerie in 4 acts and 5 tableaux, with Richard Lesclide, Théâtre du Havre, 13 January *1873: ''À cache-cache'' comedy in one act in verse and in prose, with Carle Le Dhuy, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 25 July *1876: ''Les Trois grâces'', pochade musicale, with Lucien Delormel and Gaston Villemer, Alcazar d'Été *1877: ''La Jeunesse de Béranger'', one-act operetta, music by Firmin Bernicat, L'Eldorado, 20 January *1878: ''Une aventure de Clairon'', one-act operetta, with Gaston Villemer, L'Eldorado, 23 November *1881: ''Les Chevau-Légers'', one-act operetta, with Lucien Delormel, music by Robert Planquette, L'Eldorado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Péricaud
Louis Jean Péricaud (10 June 1835, La Rochelle – 12 November 1909, Paris) was a 19th-century French stage actor, chansonnier, playwright, theatre historian and theatre director. He was the father of actress Berthe Jalabert (1858–c.1935) and the uncle of actor Gustave Hamilton (1871-1951). Works ;Selected plays: *1864: ''Le Diable au Havre'', grande revue-féerie in 4 acts and 5 tableaux, with Richard Lesclide, Théâtre du Havre, 13 January *1873: ''À cache-cache'' comedy in one act in verse and in prose, with Carle Le Dhuy, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 25 July *1876: ''Les Trois grâces'', pochade musicale, with Lucien Delormel and Gaston Villemer, Alcazar d'Été *1877: ''La Jeunesse de Béranger'', one-act operetta, music by Firmin Bernicat, L'Eldorado, 20 January *1878: ''Une aventure de Clairon'', one-act operetta, with Gaston Villemer, L'Eldorado, 23 November *1881: ''Les Chevau-Légers'', one-act operetta, with Lucien Delormel, music by Robert Planquette, L'Eldorado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Zaccone
Pierre Zaccone (2 April 1817 – 12 April 1895) was a popular 19th-century French novelist. He owned a castle which is now named after him in Locquirec, a small Breton seaside resort located on the border of Finistère and Cotes d'Armor. He wrote serialized novels, including several detective novels. He authored some dramas in collaboration, including ''Le cousin Verdure'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act by Saint-Yves in 1855 and one after his novel, ''Les Nuits du boulevard'', in 1880. After 1870, much of his work was published by . Works * ''Époque historique de la Bretagne'' (1845) * ''Sous le masque'' (1845) * ''Histoire des sociétés secrètes, politiques et religieuses'' (1847) * ''Les Ouvriers de Paris et les ouvriers de Londres'', with Paul Féval (2 volumes, 1850) * ''Marguerite et Béatrix'' (1851), in collaboration with Émile Souvestre Émile Souvestre (April 15, 1806July 5, 1854) was a Breton novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Brittany. Initially uns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coquelin Aîné
Coquelin is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1841–1909), French actor * Charles Coquelin (1802–1852), French economist * Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (1848–1909), French actor, brother of Benoît-Constant * Francis Coquelin (born 1991), French footballer * Jean Coquelin (1865–1944), French actor, son of Benoît-Constant * Pierre Coquelin de Lisle Pierre Coquelin de Lisle (19 July 1900 – 22 July 1980) was a French sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the gold medal in the 50 metre rifle, prone competition. References Further reading * Pierre Lagr ... (1900–1980), French sports shooter {{surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre De La Porte Saint-Martin
The Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin is a venerable theatre and opera house at 18, Boulevard Saint-Martin in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. History It was first built very rapidly in 1781 under the direction of (1726–1810) to house the Paris Opéra, whose previous home, the second Salle du Palais-Royal, had burned down on 8 June 1781. The new theatre had a capacity of about 2,000 spectators and included a parterre with the lowest-priced tickets sold only to males who stood throughout the performances, an amphitheatre, and four rows of boxes. The Opéra used the theatre from 27 October 1781 until August 1794."Atlantes et cariatides des grands boulevards - Paris.fr" . The theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Desfontaines
Henri Desfontaines (12 November 1876, Paris – 7 January 1931, Paris) was a French film director, actor, and scriptwriter. Filmography As director * 1908 : ''Hamlet'' * 1909 : '' Le Puits et le pendule'' * 1910 : '' Un invité gênant'' * 1910 : '' Shylock, le marchand de Venise'' (''Shylock'') * 1910 : '' Le Scarabée d'or'' * 1910 : '' Résurrection'' * 1910 : '' La Main verte'' * 1910 : '' Hop-Frog'' * 1910 : '' Le Gendre ingénieux'' * 1911 : ''Oliver Cromwell'' * 1911 : '' La Momie'' * 1911 : '' Milton'' * 1911 : '' La Mègère apprivoisée'' * 1911 : '' Jésus de Nazareth'' * 1911 : '' La Femme-cochère'' * 1911 : '' L'Assassinat d'Henri III'' * 1911 : '' Falstaff'' * 1911 : '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' * 1912 : '' Vaincre ou mourir'' * 1912 : '' Le Page'' * 1912 : '' La Chambre au judas'' * 1912 : '' La Reine Élisabeth'' (''Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth'') * 1913 : '' Sublime amour'' * 1913 : '' L'Homme nu'' * 1913 : '' La Carabine de la mort'' * 1913 : '' Anne de Boley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for ''The Woman in White (novel), The Woman in White'' (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for ''The Moonstone'' (1868), which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel. Born to the London painter William Collins (painter), William Collins and his wife, Harriet Geddes, he moved with them to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years, learning both Italian language, Italian and French language, French. He worked initially as a tea merchant. After ''Antonina'', his first novel, appeared in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor. Some of his work appeared in Dickens's journals ''Household Words'' and ''All the Year Round''. They also collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins gained financial stability and an international following by the 1860s, but became addicted to the op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Montparnasse
The Théâtre Montparnasse is a theatre at 31, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. History After the death of famed Paris theatre builder and artistic director Henri Larochelle (1826-1884), his widow, along with former actor and artistic director Louis-Hubert Hartmann, built the present structure, which opened on 29 October 1886, on a site that had been dedicated to theatre since 1817. Architect Charles Peigniet, who helped create the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty in New York Bay, designed the new building. Although the Théâtre Montparnasse began as a commercial playhouse for melodramatic fare, it occasionally leased its stage to new experimentalist plays of the Independent Theatre movement. A year after the theatre's opening, Hartmann readily agreed to lease his stage to André Antoine, whose revolutionary new company, the Théâtre Libre, had, in spring 1887, earned immediate publicity as an exciting venture devoted to producing new plays. He also ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Trianon (theatre)
Le Trianon is a theatre and concert hall in Paris. It is located at 80, boulevard de Rochechouart, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, at the foot of the hill of Montmartre. Café concert (1894–1900) The ''Trianon-Concert'' was built as a ''café concert'' in 1894 in the garden of the ''Élysée Montmartre'', which was requisitioned for the purpose. Édouard Jean Niermans (1859–1928), a young architect who designed or rebuilt several theaters around that time, designed and decorated the Trianon-Concert. Opening in 1895, the Trianon-Concert was one of Paris's first music halls. Mistinguett, (Jeanne-Marie Bourgeois) made her debut at the Petit-Casino and the Trianon-Concert in its first year. Although her voice was thin, she was an accomplished mimic and comedian, became known for her shapely legs and risqué routines, and later became a star at the Moulin Rouge. In 1897 a new owner of the ''Élysée Montmartre'' refurbished the property, making two rooms: one for concerts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Déjazet
The Théâtre Déjazet is a theatre on the boulevard du Temple (popularly known as the 'boulevard du crime’) in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France. It was founded in 1770 by Comte d'Artois who later was crowned Charles X. It was then closed down and not reopened until 1851. At that time it became a café-concert called the Folies-Mayer, on the site of a former ''jeu de paume'' (tennis court). It was converted into the Folies-Concertantes in 1853, and reopened as the Folies-Nouvelles on 21 October 1854.Lecomte 1905p. 28 Under the direction of the operetta composer Hervé from 1854 to 1856, it became a theatre for one-act ''spectacles-concerts'' with premieres of Hervé's ''La Perle de l'Alsace'' (1854), ''Un Compositeur toqué'' (1854), ''La Fine fleur de l'Andalousie'' (1854), ''Agamemnon, ou Le Chameau à deux bosses'' (1856), and ''Vadé au cabaret'' (1856). Several of Auguste Pilati's works received their first performance at the Théâtre des Folies-Nouvelles, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre De Cluny
The théâtre de Cluny or théâtre Cluny was an entertainment venue located at 71 boulevard Saint-Germain in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, inaugurated in 1864 and closed in 1989. Productions (selection) * 1869 : ''Le Juif Polonais'', opera in three acts * 1870 : ''Père et mari'', 3-act prose drama, 21 June * 1879 : ''Claudie'' by George Sand, 17 September * 1888 : ''Le Docteur Jojo'' by Albert Carré, 16 March * 1888 : ''Le Gant rouge'', by Edmond Rostand, one-act comedy, 24 August * 1893 : '' Boubouroche'' by Georges Courteline, September * 1917 : ''Chantecoq'' by Arthur Bernède and Aristide Bruant, 10 October * 1901 : ''La Dame du commissaire'', comedy in three acts, 20 April * 1923 : ''Judex'' by Arthur Bernède after the movie ''Judex'' by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède, 14 August * 1929 : ''Ma veuve s'amuse'' by José de Bérys and Benjamin Rabier Bibliography *Philippe Chauveau, ''Les Théâtres parisiens disparus (1402-1986)'', éd. de l'Amandier, Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
