Édouard-Joseph-Ennemond Mazères (11 September 1796, Paris – 19 March 1866, Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright and
librettist
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...
.
Biography
A son of a French colonist of Saint-Domingue, he studied in Paris then joined the army. Lieutenant of infantry, he resigned in 1820 to concentrate on literature. He became
Charles X
Charles X (born Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Lou ...
's lecturer but had to leave the post during the
July Revolution
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (french: révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or ("Three Glorious ays), was a second French Revolution after the first in 1789. It led to the overthrow of King ...
. In 1832, he was raised to the position of sous-préfet of Saint-Denis, then prefect of Ariège (1835),
Aveyron
Aveyron (; oc, Avairon; ) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southern France. It was named after the river Aveyron. Its inhabitants are known as ''Aveyronnais'' (masculine) or ''Aveyronnaises'' (feminine) in French. The inhabitants ...
(1837),
Haute-Saône
Haute-Saône (; Arpitan: ''Hiôta-Sona''; English: Upper Saône) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône, it had a population of 235,313 in 2019.Cher (1847-1848).
His plays, many of which he wrote with
Eugène Scribe
Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of ma ...
Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française () or Théâtre-Français () is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state ...
,
Théâtre du Vaudeville
The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre company in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles.
Af ...
, etc.
Works
*1821: ''L'Album'',
comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...
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 ...
in 1 act, with
Louis-Benoît Picard
Louis-Benoît Picard (29 July 1769 in Paris – 31 December 1828 in Paris) was a French playwright, actor, novelist, poet and music director.Jean Gourret, '' Ces hommes qui ont fait l'Opéra'', 1984, p. 106-107.
Biography
Son of a lawyer, ...
*1821: ''Un jour a Rome, ou Le jeune homme en loterie'', with G. de Lurieu
*1821: ''Monsieur M. Sensible'', comedy vaudeville in 1 act
*1821: ''Le Panorama d'Athènes'', tableau in couplets
*1822: ''L'Amateur à la porte, ou la Place du Louvre'', vaudeville in 1 act
*1822: ''Le Notaire'', comedy-vaudeville in 1 act
*1822: ''Une heure de veuvage'', comedy-vaudeville
*1823: ''La loge du portier'', comedy-vaudeville, with Scribe
*1823: ''Rossini à Paris, ou Le grand dîner'', à propos-vaudeville in 1 act, with Scribe
*1823: ''Le bureau de la Loterie'', comedy-vaudeville in 1 act, with
*1823: ''La Vérité dans le vin'', comedy-vaudeville in 1 act, with Scribe
*1824: ''Le coiffeur et le perruquier'', vaudeville in 1 act, with
Eugène Scribe
Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of ma ...
*1824: ''L'Enfant trouvé'', comedy in 3 acts, with Picard
*1824: ''Les Petites saturnales'', comedy in 1 act, mixed with couplets
*1825: ''Le landau ou L'hospitalité'', comedy-vaudeville in 1 act, with Picard
*1825: ''Le Charlatanisme'', comedy-vaudeville, with Scribe
*1825: ''Les Arrangeuses, ou les Pièces mises en pièces'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Nicolas Gersin and
Gabriel de Lurieu
Gabriel de Lurieu (real name Gabriel-Zéphirin Gonyn de Lurieu; Paris, 28 October 1799 (7 brumaire year VIII) – Paris, 5 February 1889 ) was a French author and playwright.
His brother Jules-Joseph-Gabriel de Lurieu (1792–1869), with whom ...
*1825: ''L'éligible'', comedy in 1 act, with G. de Lurieu et Thomas Sauvage
*1825: ''La Quarantaine'', comedy vaudeville
*1826: ''La Coutume allemande, ou les Vacances'', comedy vaudeville in 1 act
*1826: ''La Demoiselle de compagnie'', comedy-vaudeville in 1 act, with Picard
*1826: ''La Fin du mois'', comedy-vaudeville in 1 act
*1826: ''Héritage et mariage'', comedy in 3 acts, with Picard
*1826: ''Le jeune mari'', comedy in 3 acts
*1827: ''Le Loup-garou'', opéra-comique in 1 act, with Scribe
*1827: ''Les trois quartiers'', comedie in 3 acts, with Picard
*1828: ''Chacun de son coté'', comedy in 3 acts
*1828: ''Les Éphémères'', tragi-comedy in 3 acts in prose, preceded with a
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 ...
and followed with an
epilogue
An epilogue or epilog (from Greek ἐπίλογος ''epílogos'', "conclusion" from ἐπί ''epi'', "in addition" and λόγος ''logos'', "word") is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the w ...
, with Picard
*1828: ''L'Espion'', drama in five acts, with Jacques-Arsène-François-Polycarpe Ancelot
*1828: ''L'oncle d'Amérique'', comedy-vaudeville, with Scribe
*1829: ''Le Bon garçon'', comedy in 3 acts in prose, with Picard
*1830: ''La Dame et la demoiselle'', comedy in 4 acts in prose, with Empis
*1830: ''La mère et la fille'', comedy in 5 acts, with Empis
*1830: ''Vatel ou le petit fils d'un grand homme'', comedy vaudeville in 1 act, with Scribe
*1831: ''Un changement de ministère'', comedy in 5 acts and in prose, with Adolphe-Simonis Empis
*1834: ''Une liaison'', 5-act comedy, with Empis
*1849: ''L'Amitié des femmes'', 3-act comedy, in prose
*1851: ''Le collier de perles'', 3-act comedy
*1854: ''La Niaise'', 4-act comedy
Charles Dezobry Louis Charles Dezobry (4 March 1798 – 16 August 1871) was a 19th-century French historian and historical novelist, born at St-Denis.
Works
* ''Rome au siècle d'Auguste, ou Voyage d'un Gaulois à Rome à l'époque du règne d'Auguste et p ...
, Théodore Bachelet, ''Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire'', 1869, p. 2953
*
Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''.
Biography
...
, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', vol.2, 1870, p. 1239
* Joseph Marie Quérard, Antoine Alexandre Barbier, ''Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées'', 1874, p. 139
* Ferdinand Natanael Staaff, ''La littérature française depuis la formation de la langue jusqu'à nos jours'', vol.2, 1878, p. 1065
* Patrick Berthier, ''Le théâtre au XIXe siècle'', 1986, p. 78