Antony Béraud, real name Antoine-Nicolas Béraud, (11 January 1791 – 6 February 1860) was a French military, chansonnier, writer, poet, historian and playwright.

Life

In 1809 he entered the École militaire de Saint-Cyr and became second lieutenant. He was then sent to garrison at

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and took part to the last campaigns of the

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. Captain, he was captured at the battle of the Mincio River on 8 February 1814. Captain of staff during the Hundred Days, he served at

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then participated to the

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and

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where he gained the rank of

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. Dismissed, degraded and put on half pay under

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, he then embarked on literature and collaborated to numerous magazines : ''Revue et gazette des théâtres'', ''

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'', ''L'Abeille'', ''L'Indépendant'', ''La Boussole politique'', ''La Pandore'', ''Le Siècle'', ''Les Salons de Paris'', les ''Annales de l'école française et des beaux-arts'' etc. His poems and songs directed against the Bourbon earned him six months' imprisonment. He was particularly active in the

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, was awarded the croix de juillet and was returned his

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. He was also reinstated as battalion commander of the

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, a position he would leave in 1834. In 1832 he was awarded a medal of the city of Paris for his bravery during the cholera epidemic. Managing director of the Théâtre Saint-Marcel (1839), then of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu (1840-1849), in 1849 he became director of the prison of Belle-Isle en mer (1849-1850). His

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were performed on the most important Parisian stages, including: Théâtre de l'Ambigu, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, and Théâtre de l'Odéon.

Works

*1815 : ''Lettres à mon ami et à ma maîtresse'', poems *1815 : ''La dauphinoise'', song *1826 : ''Satires ménippées sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française, avec des notes critiques et historiques, par un ancien troubadour'' *1817-1818 : ''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des évènements de la fin du dix-huitième siècle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806-1810'', 6 vol., with Jean-François Géorgel *1818 : ''Le Champ d'asile'', ''Serrez-vous bien'', songs *1818 : ''Les Veillées d'une captive'', with Auguste Imbert and Louis-François L'Héritier *1819 : ''Le départ du poète'' *1819 : ''Les Modes parisiennes, almanach pour l'année 1820'' *1820 : ''Amour, orgueil et sagesse'', short stories *1821: ''La liberté'', ''Ode à David exilé'', ''Le rappel'', poems *1822 : ''Trois jours de promenade d'un étudiant en droit'' *1824 : ''Un mot sur le tableau d'Iphigénie, refusé par le jury de peinture, au Salon de 1824'' *1824 : ''Nouveaux mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon'' *1825 : ''Dictionnaire historique de Paris'' *1827 : ''Cri d'un vieux soldat à l'ex-garde nationale'' *1831 : ''Veilles poétiques'' *1832 : ''Introduction à toutes les histoires de France, ou Histoire des peuples qui ont habité la Gaule, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à Clovis'' *1833 : ''Histoire pittoresque de la Révolution française'' *1834 : ''L'Avenir des peuples, histoire contemporaine des mœurs, des arts, de l'industrie, du commerce, des voyages'' *1835 : ''Mémoires inédits de Henri Masers de Latude'', with Henri Masers de Latude *1835 : ''Veilles patriotiques'' *1836 : ''Le Pendu, histoire d'une grande dame de la restauration napolitaine et du baron Pierre Férat, aujourd'hui galérien'' *1836 : ''Versailles et son musée'', à-propos en vers *1848 : ''Le Nœud républicain, couplets chantés au banquet fraternel donné par la 5me compagnie du 2me bataillon de la 6e légion''

Theatre

* ''Les Deux coups de sabre'', drama in 3 acts, with Charles Puysaye, 1822 * ''Cardillac ou Le quartier de l'Arsenal'', melodrama in three acts, with

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, 1824 * ''Les Aventuriers, ou le Naufrage'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Léopold Chandezon, 1824 * ''Cagliostro'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Léopold Chandezon, 1825 * ''Les Prisonniers de guerre'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1825 * ''La Redingotte et la perruque, ou le Testament'', mimodrama in 3 acts à grand spectacle, with Chandezon, 1825 * ''Charles Stuart, ou le Château de Woodstock'', melodrama in 3 acts, à grand spectacle, with Eugène Cantiran de Boirie, 1826 * ''Le Corregidor ou les Contrebandiers'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1826 * ''Le monstre et le magicien'', melodrama féerique in three acts, with Merle, 1826 * ''Le monstre et le magicien'', melodrama, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and Crosnier, 1826 * ''Irène ou la prise de Napoli'', melodrame in 2 acts, with Chandezon, 1827 * ''Le vétéran'', pièce militaire in 2 acts, with Chandezon, 1827 * ''Faust'', drama in 3 acts, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and

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, 1828 * ''La Duchesse et le page'', comedy in 3 acts, in prose, 1828 * ''Le Siège de Saragosse'', pièce militaire in 2 acts à grand spectacle, 1828 * ''Tom-Wild, ou le Bourreau'', melodrama in 3 acts, with

Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806 – 12 January 1871) was a French dramatist. He was born in Paris. The first play to bear his name is ''L'Ami et le mari, ou le Nouvel Amphitryon'', a vaudeville in one act. It ...

, 1828 * ''Le Fou'', drama in 3 acts, with

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and Gustave Drouineau, 1829 * ''Nostradamus'', drama in 3 acts and 6 parts, with Valory, 1829 * ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'', with Valory, 1830 * ''Guido Reni ou Les artistes'', play in 5 acts and in verses, with

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, 1833 * ''Le gars'', drama in five acts and six tableaux, 1837 * ''Lélia'', drama in 3 acts, in prose, with

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, 1838 * ''La verrerie de la gare'', drame anecdotique et populaire in 3 acts, 1838 * ''Le prêteur sur gages'', drama in trois acts, with Henri de Saint-Georges, 1838 * ''Napoléon'', drame historique in 3 acts and 5 tableaux, with

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, 1839 * ''Meurtre et dévouement'', drama in 3 acts, 1839 * ''Édith ou La veuve de Southampton'', drama in 4 acts, with

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, 1840 * ''Francesco Martinez'', drama in three acts, 1840 * ''Le maître à tous'', comedy in 2 acts, with

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, 1840 * '' La Lescombat'', drama in 5 acts, with Brot, 1841 * ''Le Miracle des roses'', drama in 16 tableaux, with Hippolyte Hostein, 1844 * ''Le Rôdeur, ou les Deux apprentis'', drama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1844 * ''Hortense de Blengie'', comédie-drame in 3 acts, with Frédéric Soulié, 1848 * ''Entre l'enclume et le marteau'',

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in 1 act, 1850 * ''Taconnet, ou l'Acteur des boulevards'', vaudeville in 5 acts, with Clairville, 1852 * ''Un Festival'',

in 1 act, 1853 * ''Les Guides de Kinrose'', drame-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Édouard Brisebarre, 1854

Bibliography

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 ...

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Pierre Larousse Pierre Athanase Larousse (23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume '' Grand di ...

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