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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 |
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 |
Édouard Lockroy
Édouard Lockroy (18 July 183822 November 1913) was a French politician. He was born in Paris, the son of Joseph Philippe Simon (1803–1891), an actor and dramatist who took the name of Lockroy. Revolutionary years He had begun by studying art, but in 1860 enlisted as a volunteer under Garibaldi. The next three years were spent in Syria as secretary to Ernest Renan, and on his return to Paris he embarked in militant journalism against the Second French Empire in ''Le Figaro'', the '' Diable à quatre'', and eventually in '' Le Rappel'', with which his name was thenceforward intimately connected. He commanded a battalion during the siege of Paris, and in February 1871 was elected deputy to the National Assembly where he sat on the extreme left and protested against the preliminaries of peace. Radical politician In March he signed the proclamation for the election of the Paris Commune, and resigned his seat as deputy. Arrested at Vanves, he remained a prisoner at Versailles and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Arnould
Auguste Jean François Arnould (29 April 1803 – 8 March 1854) was a French poet, playwright, historian, novelist and essayist of the first half of the 19th century. He first studied law to become a lawyer but did not feel the vocation and preferred to devote himself to literature. His plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre de la Renaissance, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Comédie-Française etc. Married to the actress Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy of the Comédie française, He died in Saint Petersburg, where he had accompanied her on a tour. Works Theatre *1829: ''La Vieille fille et la jeune veuve'', comedy in 1 act and in verses, with Narcisse Fournier *1831: ''L'homme au masque de fer'', drama in 5 acts and in prose, with Fournier *1831: ''La poupée ou l'Écolier en bonne fortune'', comedy mingled with couplets, with Fournier *1831: ''Les Secrets de cour'', comà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Dragons De Villars
''Les dragons de Villars'' (''The Dragoons of Villars'') is an opéra-comique in three acts by Aimé Maillart to a libretto by Lockroy and Eugène Cormon. The story of the opera was said to have been borrowed from ''La Petite Fadette'' by George Sand, updated by the librettists to the time of Louis XIV. It was premiered by the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris on 19 September 1856."Maillart, Aimé" in Sadie 1992, vol. 3, p. 156. It is also known by the English title ''The Hermit's Bell'' Background The piece was first offered to the director of the Opéra-Comique, Émile Perrin, who found it too dark, even after having the composer play some of it to him. It was next offered to one of the Seveste brothers at the Théâtre-Lyrique. They also rejected it, as did their successor Pierre Pellegrin. Some years later, the authors met Léon Carvalho, who had just taken over the direction of the Théâtre-Lyrique, and who accepted the completed piece without reading a word or hearing a note. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-Antoine Jullien De Paris
Marc-Antoine Jullien, called Jullien fils, (born Paris, March 10, 1775 – died there April 4, 1848) was a French revolutionary and man of letters. Life Son of Marc Antoine Jullien, deputy from Drôme in the National Convention, he entered the Collège de Navarre in 1785; his studies were interrupted by the beginning of the Revolution. Encouraged by his ardently patriotic mother, Rosalie Ducrolay, named "Madame Jullien", he attempted a career in journalism, in 1790 becoming a collaborator on the '' Journal du Soir''. The following year, he became a member of the Jacobin Club, in which he became an opponent of war. In the spring of 1792, Jullien was sent to London by the Marquis de Condorcet, at the time president of the ''comité diplomatique'' of the Legislative Assembly. There he served as a student-diplomat, becoming an intermediary between the more liberal English factions and the Girondists. Among those he met there were Talleyrand and Lord Stanhope. Returning to F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Battu
Léon Battu was a French dramatist, born 1829Walsh T J. ''Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870.'' John Calder (Publishers Ltd), London, 1981, Appendix D, p. 342. in Paris, where he died on 22 November 1857. Life and career The son of Pantaléon Battu (1799–1870), a violinist and assistant conductor at the Opéra de Paris,Fétis F-J. ''Biographie universelle des musiciens.'' Vol I, 55. Paris, 1878. and brother of the soprano Marie Battu (1838-1888) who created Inès in ''L'Africaine'', he wrote many vaudevilles and libretti. In the fields of opéra-comique and opérettes, these were in collaboration with Ludovic Halévy, Michel Carré, Jules Barbier, Jules Moinaux and Lockroy. His composers were Jacques Offenbach ('' Pépito'', '' Le mariage aux lanternes''), Adolphe Adam (''Les Pantins de Violette''), Victor Massé (''La Reine Topaze''), Georges Bizet and Charles Lecocq (''Le Docteur Miracle''). With Halévy he translated Mozart's ''Der Schauspieldir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrators Of The Comédie-Française
The following is a list of the administrators of the Comédie-Française, from 1799, date of the merger between the Théâtre de la Nation and the Théâtre de la République. See also * Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française The sociétaires of the Comédie-Française are chosen from among the ''pensionnaires'' who have been in the company a year or more. They are decided upon in the course of a general assembly of the company's administrative committee, made up of 6 e ... Notes Sources *Site of the Comédie-Française {{DEFAULTSORT:Administrators of the Comedie-Francaise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Massé
Victor Massé (born ''Félix-Marie Massé''; 7 March 1822 – 5 July 1884) was a French composer. Biography Massé was born in Lorient (Morbihan) and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 for his cantata ''Le Rénégat de Tanger'' before turning his attention to opera. While at the Conservatoire, Massé studied with Jaques Halévy. He wrote some twenty operas, including ''La Chanteuse voilée'' (1850), followed by the more ambitious ''Galathée'' (1852) and ''Paul et Virginie'' (1876). His best-known and most successful work was the ''opéra comique'' ''Les Noces de Jeannette'' (1853). His last work, ''Une Nuit de Cléopâtre'', was performed posthumously in April 1885. Massé died in Paris and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery. in the 9th arrondissement of Paris is named after him. Operas * ''La Chambre gothique'', opéra (1849) * ''La Chanteuse voilée'' (1850, text by Eugène Scribe and Adolphe de Leuven) * ''Galathée'' (1852, text by Jules Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Cormon
Pierre-Étienne Piestre, known as Eugène Cormon (5 May 1810 – March 1903), was a French dramatist and librettist. He used his mother's name, Cormon, during his career. Cormon wrote dramas, comedies and, from the 1840s, libretti; around 150 of his works were published. He was stage manager at the Paris Opéra from 1859 to 1870, and administrator of the Théâtre du Vaudeville from 1874. His libretti include ''Les dragons de Villars'' (with Lockroy), ''Gastibelza'' (with d'Ennery) and ''Les pêcheurs de Catane'' (with Carré) for Maillart, ''Les pêcheurs de perles'' (with Carré) for Bizet, ''Robinson Crusoé'' (with Crémieux) for Offenbach, and ''Les Bleuets'' (with Trianon) for Cohen. The Fontainebleau act as well as the auto-da-fé scene of Verdi's opera ''Don Carlos'' is based in part on Cormon's 1846 play ''Philippe II, Roi d'Espagne'' ("''Philip II, King of Spain''"). At the Moscow Art Theatre in 1927 the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois
Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806 Р12 January 1871) was a French dramatist. He was born in Paris. The first play to bear his name is ''L'Ami et le mari, ou le Nouvel Amphitryon'', a vaudeville in one act. It was produced in 1825, when the author was still in his teens. Over the course of his career he was credited in the writing of nearly 200 plays, as many as ten a year. However the nature of theatrical collaboration at this time was such that the extent of his contribution to any given play is debatable. In fact it is known that he assisted Alexandre Dumas in the writing of several plays (''T̩r̩sa, Ang̬le, Le Mari de la Veuve, La V̩nitienne''), sometimes without acknowledgement. He is the subject of an anecdote in Dumas's "''Comment je devins auteur dramatique''" ("How I became a Dramatist"), published in 1833 in ''Revue des Deux Mondes''. Other writers with whom he worked were Philippe Dumanoir, Julien de Mallian, Victor Ducange, Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Deffès
file:Rue Peyrolières - no 54 - maison natale de Louis Deffès.jpg, Pierre Louis Deffès (25 July 1819 – 28 May 1900) was a 19th-century French composer. He excelled as a composer of both operas and large-scale sacred music. Life Deffès was born in Toulouse and admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatory in 1839, where he studied with Fromental Halévy and Henri Montan Berton (composition), François Bazin (composer), François Bazin (harmony), Auguste Barbereau (counterpoint and fugue), and Théodore Mozin (piano). In 1844, he composed ''La Toulousaine''. The piece gained great popularity and became a signature tune of his home town. In 1847, he won second prize at the "Concours de Chants Historiques" with his composition ''Les Charmes de la Paix'', and in the same year the Prix de Rome#19th century (musical composition), Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata ''L'Ange et Tobie'', based on a poem by Léon Halévy. During his stay in Rome, which was connected with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. ** Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 6 – Encounters continue, between strikers and the authorities at Glasgow. * January 7 ** General Miles' force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
