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Michel-Joseph Gentil De Chavagnac
Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac, full name Adolphe Michel Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac, (Paris, 3 July 1770 – Passy, 27 May 1846) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright. Biography After a career in the army, he became known in theater as Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers's collaborator with whom he published more than thirty plays. Managing director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1821-1822, he also was Private Secretary to the Director of Water and Forests (1822), a founding member of the , and honorary reader of the King (Charles X) from 1823 to 1830. His plays, often circumstantial, were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time, including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique etc. Works * ''La Comédie chez l'épicier, ou le Manuscrit retrouvé'', vaudeville-anecdote in 1 act, with Désaugiers, 1808 * ''La Jeunesse de Favart'', comédie anecdo ... [...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] |
Féerie
''Féerie'', sometimes translated as "fairy play", was a French theatrical genre known for fantasy plots and spectacular visuals, including lavish scenery and mechanically worked stage effects. ''Féeries'' blended music, dancing, pantomime, and acrobatics, as well as magical transformations created by designers and stage technicians, to tell stories with clearly defined melodrama-like morality and an extensive use of supernatural elements. The genre developed in the early 19th century and became immensely popular in France throughout the nineteenth century, influencing the development of burlesque, musical comedy and film. Style ''Féeries'' used a fairy-tale aesthetic to combine theatre with music, dances, mime, acrobatics, and especially spectacular visual effects created by innovative stage machinery, such as trap doors, smoke machines, and quickly changeable sets. Songs always appeared, usually featuring new lyrics to familiar melodies. Transformation scenes, in which a sce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Ledoux
Paul Ledoux (8 August 1914 – 6 October 1988) was a Belgian astrophysicist best known for his work on stellar stability and variability. With Theodore Walraven, he co-authored a seminal work on stellar oscillations. In 1964 Ledoux was awarded the Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences, and was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1972 for investigations into problems of stellar stability and variable stars. He was awarded the Janssen Medal of the French Academy of Sciences in 1976. Ledoux criterion In stellar astrophysics, Ledoux's name is now associated with the criterion under which material in a star becomes unstable to convection in the presence of a gradient of chemical composition. In homogeneous material, the Schwarzschild criterion Discovered by Karl Schwarzschild,Karl Schwarzschild, Gesammelte Werke: Collected Works, Page 14, the Schwarzschild criterion is a criterion in astrophysics where a stellar medium is stable against convecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulgence De Bury
Fulgence de Bury, real name: Joseph Désiré Fulgence de Bury (1 March 1785 – 23 June 1845) was a 19th-century French playwright. A civil servant in the administration, he became known under the pen name Fulgence. His theatre plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages including the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Opéra-Comique, the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the Théâtre du Gymnase, and the Théâtre des Variétés. Works *1815: ''Turenne, ou Un trait de modestie'', historical comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Achille d'Artois *1816: ''La Bataille de Denain'', opéra comique in 3 acts, with Armand d'Artois and Emmanuel Théaulon *1819: ''Un moment d'imprudence'', comedy in 3 acts *1819: ''Le Moulin de Bayard'', historical vaudeville in 1 act, with Marc-Michel and Charles Nombret Saint-Laurent *1820: ''L'Autre Henri, ou l'An 1880'', comedy in 3 acts, in prose, with Théaulon and Pierre Capelle *1820: ''L'Invisible, ou la Curiosité d'une veuve'', comà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Baron D'Allarde
Marie-François-Denis-Thérésa Le Roy Allarde better known as Francis baron d'Allarde (12 March 1778 – 4 October 1841) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright. Biography The son of the politician , he was a journalist in the United-States (1794-1796) where he was responsible for a column devoted to good manners in a newspaper of Massachusetts. He graduated from University of Cambridge and returned to France in 1797 with the French legation. He began a career in theater with ''Arlequin aux Petites Maisons'', a play which was given at Théâtre des Troubadours . His plays, some of which achieved a great success, signed under many pseudonyms (Francis, M. Sapajou, baron d'Allarde...) were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, and the Théâtre du Vaudeville. He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (6th division). Works * ''Arlequin aux Petites Maisons' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Gersin
Nicolas Gersin (born 1765 – died December 1833 at Chantilly) was a French playwright and librettist. An uncle of Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps who studied in his home, his plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Théâtre des Variétés-Amusantes, Théâtre-Français etc. He died of apoplexy in December 1833 at Chantilly.''L'Ami de la religion et du roi: journal ecclésiastique'', 1834, vol.78, (p. 428) Works * ''Rosine ou l’Épouse abandonnée'', opera in 3 acts, music by François-Joseph Gossec, 1786 * ''Hymne à l’Être suprême'', 1794 * ''Arlequin-décorateur'', comédie-parade in 1 act and in prose, mêlée de vaudevilles, with Alexandre de Ferrière, 1798 * ''Ne pas croire ce qu'on voit'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 1798 * ''Gilles ventriloque'', with Pierre-Ange Vieillard, 1799 * ''Le Triomphe de Camille'', opéra in 1 act, with Vieillard, 1799 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René De Chazet
René de Chazet, full name René André Polydore Balthazar Alissan de Chazet, (23 October 1774 – 23 August 1844) was a French playwright, poet and novelist. Short biography The son of an annuities controller, parent of Mackau, the ambassador of Naples, he accompanied him to Italy in 1792 and returned to France only in 1797. He collaborated with many newspapers and became known for his numerous play (theatre), plays, many of which written in collaboration with Sewrin, Charles-Augustin Sewrin. These plays were given in the most important Parisian stages of the first half of the XIXe century: Théâtre des Variétés, Comédie-Française, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre du Vaudeville etc. He competed in 1808 at the Académie française and won the first runner with his ''Éloge de Pierre Corneille''. In 1814, he was pensioned by Louis XVIII of France, Louis XVIII, made a Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and appointed librarian of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Brazier
Nicolas Brazier (17 February 1783, Paris - 18 February 1838) was a French chansonnier and vaudevillist. Life Son of a boarding school master and author of school manuals, Brazier's education was however strongly neglected due to the French Revolution. At first a jeweller's apprentice, then employed in the "Droits réunis" (the French indirect taxes administration of the time), he showed a talent for verse and was encouraged and guided by Armand Gouffé. Following his first success at the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, in 1803, he left his job to devote himself to chansons and to the theatre, following courses at school to fill in the gaps in his education. His witty, spirited and lively chansons often proved popular, though the vulgarity of his style has led to them being forgotten. The Société du Caveau keeps their memory alive. Brazier collaborated on over 200 witty vaudeville pieces, above all on the couplets. His collaborators included Dumersan, Désaugiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mélesville
Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, pen-name Mélesville (13 December 1787 in Paris – 7 November 1865 in Marly-le-Roi) was a French dramatist. The playwright Mélesville fils was his son. Life The son of Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier, Mélesville initially had success at the bar and as a magistrate. He left the legal profession in 1814 to dedicate himself to the theatre, though he had first gained praise in that area in 1811 for his comedy ''l'Oncle rival''. Out of consideration for his father's position, he wrote under the pseudonym Mélesville, by which he is still known. He wrote in all genres - dramas, melodramas, comedies, vaudevilles, opera librettos - and is the sole or collaborative author of more than 340 plays. His collaborators included Eugène Scribe and Delestre-Poirson, with the collective pseudonym of Amédée de Saint-Marc. He collaborated with the more famous authors Brazier, Carmouche, Bayard, Scribe, Léon Laya on over 500 plays, some of which enjoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Pain
Marie Joseph Pain (4 August 1773, Paris – March 1830, ibid.) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet and essayist. Biography A member of the , censor and office manager at the Prefecture of the Seine under the Bourbon Restoration, chief editor of the magazine ', he is known as one of the pioneers of vaudevillism. His plays, some of which achieved a major success,Marie Nicolas Bouillet, ''Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie'', vol.2, 1867, were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, and the Théâtre des Variétés. Works . *1792: ''Saint-Far, ou la Délicatesse de l'amour'', comedy in 1 act, in verse *1794: ''Les Chouans, ou La Républicaine de Malestroit'', with François Marie Joseph Riou de Kersalaün *1794: ''Le Naufrage au port'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles *1798: ''Le Roi de pique'', comedy in 1 act and in verse *1798: ''L'Appartement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-Antoine Désaugiers
Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1742 – 10 September 1793) was a French composer of numerous operas as well as a cantata on the storming of the Bastille and several pieces of sacred music. He was born in Fréjus. He studied music there but was largely an autodidact. Désaugiers settled in Paris in 1774 where he first came to prominence with his French translation of Giovanni Battista Mancini's ''Pensieri e riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato''. His translation, published in 1776 under the title ''L'Art du chant figuré'', was much admired by Gluck who became his close friend. Désaugiers died in Paris. His son, Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (17 November 1772 – 9 August 1827) was a French composer, dramatist, and songwriter. Désaugiers is easily confused in historical writings with his father, Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (b. Fréjus, 1742 – d. Pari ... was also a composer. References 1742 births 1793 deaths People from Fréjus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Barrière
Daniel Alexis François Barrière, also called Barrière aîné, (22 October 1792 – 30 August 1865) was a 19th-century French playwright, engraver and song writer. Biography An engraver, trained by his father, he drew a part of the campaign plans for the marshal Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr as well as maps of Swabia, Russia, Corsica or Spain and of the county Mayo. Charles Le Blanc, ''Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant: Un dictionnaire des graveurs'', 1854, He also made prints for the library. His plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, etc. His songs were published in 1829 in the book ''Étrennes lyriques ou Recueil de romances et nocturnes, with piano or harpes accompagnements'' by Antoine Romagnesi. Plays and songs *1813: ''Le Mari en vacances'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Marc-Antoine Désaugiers *1816: ''Trois pour une ou les absents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
