Émile Cottenet (1785 in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

- 1833 in Paris) was a 19th-century French actor,

chansonnier A chansonnier ( ca, cançoner, oc, cançonièr, Galician and pt, cancioneiro, it, canzoniere or ''canzoniéro'', es, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings o ...

and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

. He arrived in Paris around 1815 and became an actor for the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin before he worked for the troupe of the Théâtre du Gymnase.

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 Revo ...

, ''Histoire des Petits Théâtres de Paris'', 1838, p. 236-237. His plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century : Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin,

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 ...

, Théâtre de la Gaîté, etc.

Works

*1810: ''Le petit Saint Jean ou La vente publique'' *1813: ''Dumollet à Lyon, ou Bêtise sur bêtise'', folie-

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 *1816: ''Le Bateau à vapeur'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with

couplet A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the ...

s, with Pierre-Frédéric-Adolphe Carmouche *1816
''Les Jumelles béarnaises''
comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with

Jules Vernet Jules Vernet (? - 1845) was a 19th-century French dramatist whose plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre des Variétés, and t ...

*1816: ''Les Poissons d'avril, ou le Charivari'', amorce in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Carmouche *1817: ''Est-ce une fille ? est-ce un garçon ?'', à-propos vaudeville in 1 act, on the occasion of the happy delivery of her highness Mme la duchesse de Berry *1817: ''La Fête du Béarnais'', à-propos in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, on the occasion of the king's day, with Charles Hubert *1817: ''L'Heureuse nouvelle, ou le Premier arrivé'', à-propos in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles *1817: ''La Mascaradomanie ou la Petite revue'', scènes épisodiques mingled with vaudevilles *1817: ''Le Soldat et le courtisan, ou l'Auberge du Point-du-Jour'',

comédie en vaudevilles The ''comédie en vaudevilles'' () was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened through lyrics using the melody of popular vaudeville (song), vaudeville songs.Barnes 2001. ...

in 1 act in prose *1820: ''Tristesse et gaîté, ou les Deux noces'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Hubert *1821: ''Patapan à la représentation de Jeanne d'Arc à Feydeau'', pot-pourri written under his dictation *1821: ''Les Trébuchets'', folie villageoise, mingled with couplets *1821: ''Patapan, ex-tambour de l'armée d'Espagne, à la représentation de l'Attaque du convoi'', pot-pourri mingled with fights, dances, evolutions, ballets, etc. *1826: ''Arlequin, le dentiste et son compère'', parade in 4 acts *1827: ''Athènes, ou les Grecs d'aujourd'hui'', tragedy in 3 parts in verses *1830: ''L'Alarme des rois'' *undated : ''Boutade, devinez à qui ?''

Bibliography

* Salvador Jean Baptiste Tuffet, ''Les mystères des théâtres de Paris'', 1844, *

Henry Lyonnet Henry Lyonnet, real name Alfred Copin, (1853 - 4 February 1933) was a French writer. He is mostly known for his studies on the history of theatre, and specifically for his ''Dictionnaire des comédiens français''. Main works under the name Alf ...

, ''Dictionnaire des comédiens français'', 1911,

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