Antoine-Marie Coupart (13 June 1780 – 19 October 1864) was an early 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 ...

and

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 ...

, as well as a

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...

at the Théâtre du Palais Royal (1831–1864).

Biography

At first an employee in the administration of military transport in Paris and

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(1796–1798), he joined then the office of newspapers and theaters and the Ministry of Police where he became deputy chief in 1813. He worked with the same title at the Ministry of the interior in 1820 and became head of that office in 1824. After he was put on retirement in 1829, he worked as secretary general of the

Paris Opera The Paris Opera (, ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the , and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the , but continued to be ...

. From 1822 to 1836, he was responsible for the publication of the ''Almanach des spectacles'' (twelve volumes). His plays were presented at the Théâtre des Variétés and at the

Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique The Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (, literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet. It was rebuilt in 1770 and 1786, but in ...

in Paris.

Works

*1803: ''Lucile ou l'amant à l'épreuve'', comedy in 1 act and in prose *1804: ''Toujours le même'',

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

Joseph Servières Joseph Servières (20 July 1781 – 3 February 1826online archive of the City of Paris, reconstructed civil status, fiche n° 6/5/ref>) was an early 19th-century French playwright. Biography Servieres made good studies in his hometown and came ...

*1804: ''Les trois n'en font qu'un'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Servières *1805: ''Les Nouvelles métamorphoses'', vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, with Servières *1814: ''Vive la paix ! ou le Retour au village'', impromptu in 1 act, mingled with songs and danses, with E. F. Varez *1815: ''Voilà notre bouquet ! ou le Cabinet littéraire'', impromptu-vaudeville in 1 act, with Varez *1819: ''Le Passe-partout'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Jean-Antoine-Marie Monperlier Jean-Antoine-Marie Monperlier, (31 June 1788 – 23 March 1819) was a French poet, playwright, and librettist. Monperlier was born in Lyon. His plays ranged from light vaudeville to larger scale melodramas, often incorporating ballet sequence ...

*1820: ''Levez la toile !'', pièce épisodique in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with Jacquelin *1821: ''Le Baptême, ou la Double fête'', vaudeville in 1 act *1822: ''Un trait de bienfaisance, ou la Fête d'un bon maire'', à-propos 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 Varez *1823: ''L'Aubergiste malgré lui'', comédie proverbe, with

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 ...

and

Théodore Nézel Théodore Nézel (25 February 1799 – 23 May 1854) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. An employee at the ministry of public instruction, he was appointed managing director of the Théâtre du Panthéon in 1838. His plays, ofte ...

*1823: ''Le Passage militaire, ou la Désertion par honneur'', entertainment in 1 act, with Jacquelin *1823: ''Fête à la halle ! ou le Retour de nos braves'', tableau épisodique in 1 act, with Jacquelin *1824: ''La fête d'automne'', tableau villageois in 1 act, with Jacquelin and Varez *1824: ''Le Retour d'un brave'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Jacquelin and Varez *1825: ''L'Entrée à Reims'', entertainment in 1 act, with

Jacques-André Jacquelin Jacques-André Jacquelin (18 March 1776 – 13 August 1827) was a French playwright, lyricist, chansonnier, goguettier and poet. Biography A chief clerk at the Ministry of War, he became inspector of secondary theaters of Paris. Jacquelin aut ...

and Armand Joseph Overnay *1825: ''Le Petit postillon de Fimes, ou Deux fêtes pour une'', à propos historique in 1 act, with Jacquelin *1826: ''Le Fils de l'invalide'',

one-act play A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writi ...

, mingled with couplets, with Jacquelin and Varez *1829: ''La comédie au château'', one-act play mingled with couplets, with Jacquelin and Varez *1830: ''Chansons d'un employé mis à la retraite'' *undated: ''Couplets chantés le 22 juillet 1827, à Soisy-sous-Étiolles, à l'occasion de la fête de Marguerite G'' *undated: ''Souvenir du 11 juin 1842'' *1854: ''Couplets d'inauguration de la société de la Chopinette, fondée par les artistes du théâtre du Palais-Royal, chantés le 6 janvier 1855''

Bibliography

* François-Joseph Fétis, ''Biographie universelle des musiciens'', vol.3-4, 1837, (p. 205)
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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 ...

, ''L'année littéraire et dramatique'', 1865, (p. 374) * Gustave Vapereau, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', 1865, (p. 435)
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Ludovic Lalanne Ludovic Lalanne (23 April 1815, Paris – 16 May 1898, Paris) was a French historian and librarian. The engineer and politician Léon Lalanne (1811–1892) was his brother. Biography Lalanne was a student at the lycée Louis-le-Grand and late ...

, ''Dictionnaire historique de la France'', 1872, (p. 596)
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