Auguste Jean François Arnould (29 April 1803 – 8 March 1854) was a French poet, playwright, historian, novelist and essayist of the first half of the 19th century.
He first studied law to become a lawyer but did not feel the vocation and preferred to devote himself to literature.
His
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were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the 19th century:
Théâtre du Vaudeville
The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre company in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles.
Af ...
Théâtre de la Renaissance
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Comédie-Française
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etc.
Married to the actress
Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy
Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy (4 September 1819 – 30 May 1897) was a French stage actress.
Life
She was born in Metz, France, the daughter of a local actor named Plessy, and became a pupil of Samson at the Conservatoire in 1829. Plessy mad ...
of the Comédie française, He died in Saint Petersburg, where he had accompanied her on a tour.
Works
Theatre
*1829: ''La Vieille fille et la jeune veuve'', comedy in 1 act and in verses, with
Narcisse Fournier
Narcisse Louis Pierre Fournier (24 November 1803 – 24 April 1880) was a French journalist, novelist and playwright.
Life
He began his literary career aged 22 with two pieces, ''les Secrets de Cœur'' and ''la Poupée''. From then on he prod ...
*1831: ''L'homme au masque de fer'', drama in 5 acts and in prose, with Fournier
*1831: ''La poupée ou l'Écolier en bonne fortune'', comedy mingled with couplets, with Fournier
*1831: ''Les Secrets de cour'', comédie anecdotique in 1 act and in prose, with Fournier
*1831: ''La Sœur cadette'', comedy in 1 act, in verses, with Fournier
*1831: ''Catherine II'', comedy in 3 acts and in prose, with
Lockroy
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opéra comique
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in 1 act, with
Frédéric Soulié
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, with Fournier
*1840: ''Un secret'', drama in 3 acts, mingled with couplets, with Fournier
*1841: ''La fête des fous'', drama in 5 acts, with Fournier
*1841: ''Le Dérivatif'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets
*1841: ''La Maschera'', opéra comique in 2 acts
*1842: ''Les Fiancées d'Herbesheim'', with Lockroy
*1843: ''L'Extase'', comedy in 3 acts, mingled with song, with Lockroy and
Alexandre Pierre Joseph Doche
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The son of Joseph-Denis Doche, he studied at the Conservatoire de Pari ...
*1844: ''Un Amant malheureux'', comédie-vaudeville en 2 acts
*1845: ''Une Bonne Réputation'', comedy in 1 act, in prose
*1845: ''Le Droit d'aînesse'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Fournier
*1867: ''Les Ruines du Château noir'', drama in 9
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, including a prologue, with Fournier and Henri Horace Meyer, (posthumous)
History
*1833: ''Struensée, ou La reine et le favori'', 2 vol.
*1835: ''Alexis Petrowitch (histoire russe de 1715 à 1718)'', with N. Fournier
*1839-1840: ''Crimes célèbres'', 8 vol., with
Alexandre Dumas
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, Pier-Angelo Fiorentino, Narcisse Fournier and
Félicien Mallefille
Jean Pierre Félicien Mallefille (May 3, 1813 – November 24, 1868) was a French novelist and playwright.
Mallefille was born in Mauritius. He wrote a number of plays, including ''Glenarvon'' (1835), ''Les sept enfants de Lara'' (1836), ''Le cœ ...
*1841: ''Fille, femme et veuve''
*1841: ''Adèle Launay''
*1844: ''Histoire de la Bastille depuis sa fondation (1374) jusqu'à sa destruction (1789)'', with
Auguste Maquet
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and
Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol
Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol (1805, Montpellier – 9 April 1854, Paris) was a French historian and playwright. Director of the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Montmartre, Alboize Pujol wrote several dramas and comedies, either alone or in collabo ...
*1849: ''Les Jésuites depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours, histoire, types, mœurs, mystères''
*1854: ''Jeanne de Naples''
Poetry
*1838: ''A la belle étoile''
*1840: ''Hégésippe Moreau. Le Myosotis''
*1842: ''La roue de fortune''
Novels
*1840: ''La Mère-folle''
*1844: ''Les Trois aveugles'', with Alexandre de Lavergne
*1847: ''Tout chemin mène à Rome'', with de Lavergne
*1849: ''Une lettre anonyme''