Claude-Aimé Desprez-Saint-Clair (5 April 1783 – 26 April 1824) was a French

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 ...

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and chansonnier. He himself performed comedy plays and, around 1810, joined the troupe of the

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under the name Saint-Clair. He died in April 1824 from tuberculosis.

Works

* ''Le Foyer ou le Couplet d'annonce'', with Varez, vaudeville presented at the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes. * ''Kikiki'', with

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and Varez, parody of ''Tékêli'', presented at the Nouveaux-Troubadours. * ''Le Mariage de la Valeur'', vaudeville, presented at the Ambigu-Comique. * ''L'Espoir réalisé'', vaudeville, ''ibid.'' * ''Le Jardin d'Oliviers'', ''ibid.'' * ''Le Mariage sous d'heureux auspices'', with Ferrière, vaudeville in 1 act, on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Beni, presented at the Ambigu-Comique, Paris, 1816, in-8°. * ''Marguerite de Straffort, ou le Retour à la royauté'', with the same,

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in 3 acts, in prose, presented on the same stage, Paris, 1816, in-8°. * ''Retournons à Paris'', with Varez, comedy in 1 act mingled with vaudevilles, presented on the same stage, Paris, 1817, in-8°. * ''Grégoire à Tunis'', with Ferrière, vaudeville presented at the Ambigu-Comique. * ''Monsieur de la Hure'', vaudeville given at the Théâtre de la Gaîté. * ''L'Homme à tout'', with an anonymous author, vaudeville, Théâtre de la Gaîté. * ''Les Épaulettes de grenadier'', with Edmond, comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, 1820, in-8°. * ''Paris'', with Edmond, Crosnier and Émile de Plugette,

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mingled with

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s, on the occasion of the birth of his Royal Highness the Duke of Bordeaux, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 29 September 1820, Paris, 1820, in-8°. * ''Le Bouffon dans l'embarras'', with Ferrière, vaudeville,

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. * ''Les Ermites'', with

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and

Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont Michel-Nicolas Balisson, baron de Rougemont (27 February 1781 - 16 July 1840), was a French journalist, novelist and dramatist. Biography His family comes from Sourdeval, in Normandy. He invented the ''mot de Cambronne''.Jacques Logie, Waterlo ...

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in 1 act, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, 1821, in-8°. * ''Le Protégé de tout le monde'', with J. Dusaulchoy and

Alexandre-Joseph Le Roy de Bacre Alexandre-Joseph Le Roy de Bacre, born in Paris, was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography He first made a career in the army as an officer before devoting himself to theater. He attended the military school in Ventimiglia and served as a ...

, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 12 November 1822, Paris, 1822, in-8°. * ''Le Mariage à la turque'', vaudeville in 1 act, Paris, 1823, in-8°. * ''Malbrouck'', folie-vaudeville. * ''La Grotte de Fingal, ou le Soldat mystérieux''.

Sources

Joseph-François Michaud Joseph–François Michaud (19 June 1767 – 30 September 1839) was a French historian and publicist. Biography Michaud was born at either La Biolle or Albens in the Duchy of Savoy (then a part of the Holy Roman Empire and a possession of the Ki ...

: ''Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne'', t. 10, Paris, Madame C. Desplaces, 1852, 603 p. {{DEFAULTSORT:Desprez-Saint-Clair, Aime 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French male stage actors French chansonniers People from Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1783 births 1824 deaths