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Michel Delaporte
Pierre Michel Delaporte (5 September 1806 – 30 September 1872) was a 19th-century French playwright, painter, lithographer and political caricaturist. Short biography He was educated in Amiens and in 1824 became a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. After he suffered from an eye disease, he was forced to give up painting and thus turned to writing. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, and the Théâtre des Variétés. He also created numerous lithographies, illustrations and prints which were published in many newspapers and magazines, such as ''La Caricature (1830–1843)'' or ''Le Figaro''. Works * ''La Fille de l'air dans son ménage'', vaudeville-féerie in 1 act, with Honoré, 1837 * ''Le Cousin du Pérou'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Lubize and Théodore Muret, 1837 * ''Le Parisien'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1837 * ''Argentin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadar (photographer)
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar (1856–1939), continued the studio after his death. Life Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (also known as Nadar) was born in early April 1820 in Paris, though some sources state he was born in Lyon. His father, Victor Tournachon, was a printer and bookseller. Nadar began to study medicine but quit for economic reasons after his father's death. Nadar started working as a caricaturist and novelist for various newspapers. He fell in with the Parisian bohemian group of Gérard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire, and Théodore de Banville. His friends picked a nickname for him, perhaps by a playful habit of ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. It became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed radically from its French antecedent. In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippolyte-Jules Demolière
Hippolyte-Jules Demolière (3 August 1802 – 26 December 1877) was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright. After he was a secretary in the French Provisional Government of 1848, he held a position within the Secretariat of the Executive under général Cavaignac. Under the pseudonym Moléri, Demolière published, alone or in collaboration, numerous feuilletons, some of which were later published in volumes, as well as vaudevilles, Railway guides and gardening manuals. Main publications ;Novels published in volumes *1830: ''L'Exposition de tableaux, ou le Faussaire'' (4 volumes) *1833: ''Le Czarewitz Constantin et Jeannette Grudzinska, ou les Jacobins polonais'', with J. Czynski (2 volumes) *1837–1838: ''La Fille de Pauvre Jacques'', with Edme Chauffer (4 volumes) *1856: ''Petits drames bourgeois, études de mœurs'' (2 volumes) *1858: ''Fièvres du jour : la Famille Guillaume ; l'Institutrice ; un vieux lion'' *1862: ''La Traite des blanches'' *1865: ''Or et misèr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-François Ancelot
Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Biography Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the Revolution of 1830. In 1816 his play ''Warwick'' was accepted by the Théâtre Français, but never produced, and three years later a five-act tragedy, ''Louis IX'', was staged. Three editions of the play were speedily exhausted; it had a run of fifty representations, and brought him a pension of 2000 francs from Louis XVIII. His next work, ''Le Maire du palais'', was played in 1825 with less success; but for it he received the cross of the Légion d'honneur. In 1824 he produced ''Fiesque'', a clever adaptation of Schiller's '' Fiesco''. In 1828 appeared ''Olga, ou l'orpheline russe'', the plot of which had been inspired by a voyage he made to Russia in 1826. About the same period he produced in succession ''Marie de Brabant'' (1825), a poem in six cant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amable De Saint-Hilaire
Amable Vilain de Saint-Hilaire (born 30 November 1799) was a French dramatist whose plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre de la Renaissance etc. Œuvres *1820: ''Écoutons ! ! !'', scènes improvisées, on the occasion of the birth of H.R.H. Mgr the duke of Bordeaux, with Emmanuel Lepeintre *1820: ''La pièce d'emprunt ou le compilateur'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Edmond Crosnier, 1820 *1821: ''Jocrisse paria'', tragédie burlesque in 1 act and in verses, with Crosnier *1821: ''Le Solitaire ou l'Exilé du mont Sauvage'', melodrama in three acts, à grand spectacle *1822: ''La Fille à marier ou La Double éducation'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Ferdinand Laloue and Constant Ménissier *1822: ''Le Meurtrier, ou le Dévouement filial'', historical melodrama in 3 acts, à spectacle, with Crosnier *1823: ''La Chasse au renard'', vaudevill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois
Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806 – 12 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 (''Térésa, Angèle, Le Mari de la Veuve, La Vénitienne''), 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] |
Ernest Jaime
Jean-François-Ernest Jaime (28 April 1804 – 7 June 1884) was a French watercolourist, lithographer, art historian and playwright. He was the father of dramatist Adolphe Jaime (1824–1901). He collaborated to ''Le Figaro'' and '' La Caricature''. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of the 19th century: Variétés, Gaîté, Palais-Royal, etc. He also authored some songs. Works Theatre *1832: ''La Sylphide'', drama in 2 acts mixed with song, with Jules Seveste *1832: ''Le Chevreuil'', comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Léon Halévy *1832: ''Folbert, ou le Mari de la cantatrice'', comedy in 1 act mixed with song, with Halévy *1832: ''Une course en fiacre'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts *1832: ''Le Grand Seigneur et la Paysanne, ou Une leçon d'égalité'', comedy in 2 acts mixed with song, with Halévy and de Leuven *1832: ''Grillo, ou le Prince et le banquier'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Halévy *1832: ''La M ... [...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] |
Charles Potier
Charles Joseph Édouard Potier, called Charles (Bordeaux, 1806 – Asnières-sur-Seine, 28 April 1870) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. A son of Charles-Gabriel Potier, an actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1826), the Théâtre du Palais-Royal than at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, his plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre Déjazet. Works * ''Les 20000 francs'', drama in 1 act mingled with songs, with Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé, 1832 * ''La Fille du bourreau'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Boulé, 1833 * ''Le Peloton de fil'', moralité in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1834 * ''Parce que, ou la Suite de ''Pourquoi ?'' '', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Boulé, 1835 * ''Fanchette, ou l'Amour d'une femme'', drama-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Boulé, 1836 * ''Le Facteur, ou la Justice des hommes'', drama in 5 ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe D'Ennery
Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery or Dennery (17 June 181125 January 1899) was a French playwright and novelist. Life Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe. He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in ''Émile, ou le fils d'un pair de France'' (1831), a drama which was the first of a series of some two hundred pieces written alone or in collaboration with other dramatists. He died in Paris in 1899. Works Among the best of his works is a play about ''Kaspar Hauser'' (1838) with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois; ''Les Bohémiens de Paris'' (1842) with Eugène Grangé; with Julien de Mallian the play ''Marie-Jeanne, ou la femme du peuple'' (1845), in which Marie Dorval obtained a great success; a drama based on ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1853) with Dumanoir; and '' The Two Orphans'' (1875), perhaps his best piece, with Eugène Cormon. The story was adapted in 1921 by D.W. Griffith as the film ''Orphans of the Storm.'' He wrote the libretto for Gounod's ''Le tribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prologue
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. The Ancient Greek ''prólogos'' included the modern meaning of ''prologue'', but was of wider significance, more like the meaning of preface. The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great; it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded. Latin On the Latin stage the prologue was often more elaborate than it was in Athens, and in the careful composition of the poems which Plautus prefixes to his plays we see what importance he gave to this portion of the entertainment; sometimes, as in the preface to the ''Rudens'', Plautus rises to the height of his genius in his adroit and romantic prolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Bergeron
Louis Bergeron (1 October 1811 in Chauny – 1 August 1890 in Croissy) was a 19th-century French journalist, writer and playwright. Works *1833: ''Campagnes d'Espagne et de Portugal sous l'Empire'' *1839: ''Fables démocratiques'' *1839: ''Un Neveu, s'il vous plaît'', one-act folie-vaudeville, with Albéric Second *1840: ''L'Andalouse de Paris'', one-act vaudeville, with Michel Delaporte *1842: ''Une jeunesse orageuse'', wo-act comédie en vaudeville, with Charles Desnoyer *1845: ''L' article de la mort, physiologie d'un enterrement'' *1846: ''Le fou de Béthune'', feuilleton *1847: ''L'Officier de marine'', one-act vaudeville, with Bricet *1850: ''Chronique parisienne'', under the pseudonym Émile Pagès *1852: ''Un mauvais père'' *1868: ''La Vérité sur les tontines indument appelées assurances mutuelles sur la vie'' *1870: ''Qu'est-ce que l'assurance sur la vie ?'' *1872: ''L'Avenir des familles'' *1873: ''Qu'est ce que l'assurance sur la vie ?'' *1874: ''Un Rêve de b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
