Alexandre Ferré also known as Firmin or Saint-Firmin, (? – 27 February 1839) in
Paris was a 19th-century French
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 ...
.
A former sergeant in the National Guard, he became actor and tenor at Versailles. Hired by the
Théâtre de la Gaîté then, after a tour in Seine-et-Oise, at the
Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, he played the part of Don César de Bazan in ''
Ruy Blas'' at the inauguration of the
Théâtre de la Renaissance 8 November 1838.
[The director of the Théâtre de la Renaissance, must buy his contract with the Gaite where he was engaged until 1840.] Sick, he last played 5 January 1839 and died a month later after this success. He was then replaced in that role by
Charles de Chilly.
His
plays were presented among others at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique and the
Théâtre du Panthéon.
Works
*1833: ''Cinq-Mars'', drama in 5 acts in prose
*1836: ''Le Ménage de Titi'',
tableau 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 Théodore de Lustières
*1837: ''Baron le comédien'', anecdote-vaudeville in 1 act, with Jean-Baptiste Tuffet
*1838: ''Maître Job, ou Ma femme et mon télescope'', vaudeville in 1 act
*1839: ''Tiennette, ou le Racoleur et la jeune fille'', vaudeville in 1 act, with
Adolphe Guénée
Adolphe Guénée (14 December 1818 in Paris – 16 July 1877 in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright.
The son of a conductor of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, he studied in College Bourbon and made his debut in 1838 at the Théâtre de la ...
*1846: ''Je vous y prends ! ou l'Assurance mutuelle'', vaudeville épisodique in 1 act, posth.
Bibliography
*
Joseph Marie Quérard, ''Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées'', 1852,
Notes
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19th-century French male actors
French male stage actors
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Year of birth missing
1839 deaths