Charles Henry Charlot de Courcy (22 August 1834 – 12 December 1917''Courrier des théâtres : Nécrologie''.
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Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of reco ...

'', 15 décembre 1917, p. 3, .) was a 19th-century French dramatist and journalist. He was the son of dramatist, poet 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 ...

Frédéric de Courcy Frédéric de Courcy, born Frédéric Charlot de CourcyThus he is not part of the Norman Courcy family, contrary to his entry in ''Dictionnaire de biographie française'' (16 August 1796, Paris – 6 May 1862, Paris) was a French dramatist, poet an ...

(1796–1862). A journalist at ''

L'Illustration ''L'Illustration'' was a weekly French language, French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, a ...

'', his plays were presented, among others, at the Théâtre du Gymnase, the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the

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 ...

and the

Comédie-française The Comédie-Française () or Théâtre-Français () is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state ...

Works

*1853: ''Un Merlan en bonne fortune'',

comédie en vaudevilles The ''comédie en vaudevilles'' () was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened through lyrics using the melody of popular vaudeville (song), vaudeville songs.Barnes 2001. ...

in 1 act, with

Charles Labie Charles Labie was a 19th-century French playwright. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time, including the Théâtre du Gymnase, the Théâtre de la Gaîté, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre de la ...

and Varin *1853: ''La Pompadour des Porcherons'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Labie *1858: ''Entre Hommes'',

pochade A pochade (from French ''poche'', pocket) is a type of sketch used in painting. As opposed to a croquis, which is line art, a pochade captures the colors and atmosphere of a scene. Generally, pochades use a small, portable format. Robert Henri a ...

in 1 acte, 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 *1860: ''Daniel Lambert'', drama in 5 acts, en prose *1861: ''Les Histoires du café de Paris'', Michel Lévy *1861: ''Le Chemin le plus long'', comedy in 3 acts, in prose *1862: ''Diane de Valneuil'', comedy in 5 acts, in prose *1865: ''La Marieuse'', comedy in 2 acts, with

Lambert-Thiboust Lambert-Thiboust (25 October 1827 – 10 July 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography Lambert-Thiboust began his career as a comedian. He won a prize for tragedy at the Paris Conservatoire in 1848 and briefly pursued acting at th ...

*1872: ''Les Vieilles Filles'', comedy in 5 acts, in prose, with

Victorien Sardou Victorien Sardou ( , ; 5 September 18318 November 1908) was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-centur ...

*1876: ''Andrette'', comedy in 1 act, in prose *1876: ''Mademoiselle Didier'', 4-act play, in prose, with Eugène Nus *1881: ''Madame de Navaret'', 3-act play, with Eugène Nus *1882: ''Un mari malgré lui'', 1-act comedy, with E. Nus *1883: ''Toujours !'', 1 act comedy *1890: ''Une Conversion'', 1-act comedy, in prose

Bibliography

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 dict ...

, ''Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle'', 1866, (p. 281) *

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 ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', 1870, (p. 497) *

Edmond de Goncourt Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (; 26 May 182216 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. Biography Goncourt was born in Nancy. His parents, Marc-Pierre Huot d ...

Jules de Goncourt Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (; 17 December 183020 June 1870) was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy of a stroke br ...

, '' Journal; Mémoires de la Vie Littéraire: 1891-1896'', 1956, (p. 1077)

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