Étienne-Auguste Dossion (9 August 1770 – 3 October 1832) was a
French playwright and
poet.
Biography
The son of an
extra dancer at the Paris Opera, Dossion was "one of these writers-actors who contributed to the formation of the song repertoire, and one of the most fruitful."
[Léon Guichard, ''La Musique et les lettres au temps du romantisme'', Plan de la Tour, Éditions d’Aujourd’hui, 1984, texte conforme à l’édition originale, Paris, PUF, 1955, 423nb p., , (p. 29).] He was successively a notary clerk, a
prompter and a
Harlequin at the
Théâtre du Vaudeville, a master of studies at
Collège Sainte-Barbe
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, a bridges inspector, an employee at the Interior Ministry under
Corbière, dismissed through the influence of Godiche because he always threw him tobacco puffs and he smelled of eau de vie, a launderer at Vaugirard, before finishing a day laborer and dying at the
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.
Works
* ''Arlequin Pygmalion ou La bague enchantée'', one-act parade, mingled with
comédie en vaudevilles, Paris, an II (1794), in-8°
* ''Romance sur la mort d’Agricole Viala''
* ''La Mouche du coche, ou Monsieur Fait-Tout'', comédy in 1 act and in prose, 1812, Paris, 1802, in-8°, with
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* ''Couplets chantés à la section des Tuileries : le décadi 10 fructidor, l’an 2 de la République une & indivisible''
* ''Recueil des couplets d’annonce chantés sur le théâtre du Vaudeville, depuis le 21 avril 1792... jusqu’au 1er vendémiaire an XII'', Paris, Capelle, an XII
* ''Regrets d’un captif républicain français, d’être éloigné de sa patrie''
* ''Ode à l’Etre suprême'', music by
Dalayrac
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* ''À quelque chose malheur est bon, ou le Bien à côté du mal'', Paris,
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, 1807
* ''Épitre au poëte cordonnier'', Paris, Aubry, 1808, in-8°, 8 p.; Paris, 1808, in-8°
* ''L’Éducation du fils d’Alcide, couplets sur la naissance du roi de Rome''
* ''Chant des berceuses du Roi de Rome''
* ''L’Élan du cœur. Opuscules à l’occasion du sacre de S. M. Charles X'', 1825, in-8°
* ''Stances sur la mort de Louis XVIII''
* ''Le Bordeaux, chanson bacchique (''sic''), pour le baptême de S. A. R. Mgr le Duc de Bordeaux''
* ''Le Cri des employés. Réponse à MM. de La Bourdonnaye, Castelbajac, de Villèle, Cornet d’Incourt, Dufourgerais, etc.'', Paris, Delaunay, 1817
* ''Recueils des couplets d’annonces chantés sur le théâtre du Vaudeville''; 1803, 1 vol. in-18
* ''Histoire vraisemblable'', 1807, in-8°, under the pseudonym Bernard
* ''Guide du Constitutionnel'', Paris, 1819, br. in-8°
References
Sources
*
Ferdinand Hoefer, ''Nouvelle Biographie générale'', t.14, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1855, (p. 666).
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18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
1770 births
Writers from Paris
1832 deaths