Antoine Année ( Avremesnil in pays de Caux, near Dieppe, 22 August 1770 – Paris, 27 March 1846) was an 18th/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 journalist. Année embraced early on the cause of freedom, but being in Paris at the times of the

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, the

10 August Events Pre-1600 * 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I. * 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West. * 991 – Battle of Maldon: T ...

and the September Massacres, misfortunes and events made a deep impression on him, since he never ceased to rise against its excesses. During the

reign of Terror The Reign of Terror (french: link=no, la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, ...

, he was in the army, shelter and security asylum for men who did not occupy positions high enough to give rise to desire or arouse the fears of authority. Some months after the , Année returned to Paris and published under the title ''Réhabilitateur'' a magazine devoted to avenge the victims of the Terror. It was still too near the system against which he stood and his newspaper only numbered some twenty issues. The men who had played leading roles were still too powerful for such paper to be published with impunity and Année was forced to abandon it. He previously co-wrote some vaudevilles and contributed literary articles to several periodicals, including the ', the '' Mercure du XIXe siècle'' and ''

Le Constitutionnel ''Le Constitutionnel'' (, ''The Constitutional'') was a French political and literary newspaper, founded in Paris during the Hundred Days by Joseph Fouché. Originally established in October 1815 as ''The Independent'', it took its current name ...

''. At a time when the critic

Julien Louis Geoffroy Julien Louis Geoffroy (17 August 1743 – 27 February 1814) was a French literary critic. He was born at Rennes, and educated there and at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. He took orders and for some time was a mere usher, eventually becom ...

threw consternation behind the scenes, Année gathered his various judgments, opposed them to each other and wrote a book that was assigned to

Pigault-Lebrun Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l'Espinoy, better known as Pigault-Lebrun, (8 April 1753 – 24 July 1835) was a French novelist, playwright, and Epicureanism, Epicurean. Victor Hugo references Pigault-Lebrun in chapter I part 8 of Les Misé ...

Theatre

*''Arlequin-décorateur'', comédie-parade in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with

Nicolas Gersin Nicolas Gersin (born 1765 – died December 1833 at Chantilly) was a French playwright and librettist. An uncle of Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps who studied in his home, his plays have been performed on the most important Parisian sta ...

and

Alexandre de Ferrière Alexandre Leblanc de Ferrière, (18 October 1771, Bar-sur-Seine – 23 February 1848), was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, journalist, printer, publisher and writer. Biography The printer and director of ''L'Arlequin, journal de pièce ...

, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 24 August 1798 Text online
/small> *''Le Carrosse espagnol, ou Pourquoi faire ?'' comédie-vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, with Nicolas Gersin and Étienne de Jouy, Paris, Vaudeville, 4 January 1800 *''Gilles ventriloque'', parade mingled with vaudevilles, in 1 act, with Nicolas Gersin and

Pierre-Ange Vieillard Pierre-Ange Vieillard de Boismartin (17 June 1778 – 12 January 1862) was a 19th-century French poet, playwright and literary critic. Biography Vieillard was the son of Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin, a lawyer at the Parlement of Rouen, then ...

, Paris, Vaudeville, 5 March 1800 Text online
/small> *''Une nuit d'été, ou Un peu d'aide fait grand bien'',

opéra comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ...

in 3 acts, with Nicolas Gersin, music by Arthur Pougin, Paris,

Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne ...

, 7 June 1800 *''Le Premier Homme du monde, ou la Création du sommeil'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Ange Vieillard, Paris, Opéra-Comique, 30 December 1800 *''Un tour de soubrette'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, avec Nicolas Gersin, Paris,

Théâtre Louvois The Théâtre Louvois or Salle Louvois was a theatre located at what is today 8 rue de Louvois in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Inaugurated in 1791 and closed in 1825, it was used by the Théâtre-Italien from 20 March 1819 to 8 November 1825. ...

, 21 February 1805 *''Les Travestissements'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, avec Nicolas Gersin et Pierre-Ange Vieillard, Paris, Louvois, 7 August 1805 *''Une heure de caprice'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Nicolas Gersin, Paris, Vaudeville, 1 Octobre 1805

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Antoine-Vincent Arnault Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 176616 September 1834) was a French playwright. Life Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, ''Marius à Minturne'' (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second ...

Antoine Jay Antoine Jay (20 October 1770, Guîtres – 9 April 1854, Courgeac) was a French writer, journalist, historian and politician. Biography At first an Oratorian at Niort, he studied law at Toulouse then became a lawyer, then briefly worked as the ...

, Étienne de Jouy
''Biographie nouvelle des contemporains''
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