Charles-Louis-François Desnoyer, or Desnoyers, (6 April 1806 – 6 February 1858) was a 19th-century French actor,

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

theatre manager Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

. He also wrote under the

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Anatole de Beaulieu.

Short biography

He made his debut as actor and author in 1827 with a comédie en vaudeville, ''Je serai comédien''. He wrote many plays, comedies, dramas and

melodrama A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or exces ...

s for theaters on the

boulevard du Crime The Boulevard du Crime was the nickname given in the 19th century to the Boulevard du Temple in Paris because of the many crime melodramas that were shown every night in its many theaters. It is notorious in French history for having lost so many ...

in collaboration with other authors such as Eugène Nus,

Léon Beauvallet Léon Beauvallet, full name Pierre-Léon-Charles Beauvallet, (22 August 1828 – 22 March 1885) was a 19th-century French actor, playwright and novelist. Author of numerous plays, most of them written in collaboration, as well as feuilletons pu ...

Adolphe d'Ennery Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery or Dennery (17 June 181125 January 1899) was a French playwright and novelist. Life Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe. He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in ''Émile, ou le ...

. General manager of the Théâtre du Gymnase then at 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 ...

from 1841 to 1847, he became directing manager of 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 May 1852Gustave Vapereau, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', op.cit. When he died, '' La Presse'' read:

Works

Theatre

*1825: ''L’Amour et la Guerre'', vaudeville in 1 act by

Charles Varin Charles Voirin, called Varin, (20 January 1798 (1er pluviôse an VI) – 24 April 1869) was a 19th-century French playwright. He also wrote under the pen names V. Warin and Victor. Biography Destined by his father to the profession of nota ...

Étienne Arago Étienne Vincent Arago (9 February 1802 – 7 March 1892) was a French writer and politician, and co-founder (with Maurice Alhoy) of the newspaper ''Le Figaro''. Early life Arago was born in Perpignan, the youngest of the four Arago brothers. ...

and Desnoyer,

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 ...

(22 August) *1826: ''Je serai comédien'', comedy in 1 act *1828: ''L'Homme entre deux âges'', comedy 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

Louis Marie Fontan Louis Marie Fontan (November 4, 1801 – October 10, 1839), a French man of letters, was born in Lorient and died in Thiais. He began his career as a clerk in a government office, but was dismissed for taking part in a political banquet. At the ag ...

*1828: ''Le Papier timbré'', comedy in 1 act by Desnoyer *1828: ''Julien et Justine, ou Encore des ingénus'', tableau villageois with Charles-Hippolyte Dubois-Davesnes *1829: ''Gillette de Narbonne ou le Mari malgré lui'', comédie vaudeville in 3 acts with

Jean-Joseph Ader Jean-Joseph Ader (16 October 1796 – 12 April 1859) was a 19th-century French playwright, writer and historian. Biography Ader studied in a seminary of the Basque country and arrived in Paris in 1813 where he studied medicine and law. He b ...

and Fontan *1829: ''Alice ou les Fossoyeurs écossais'', melodrama in 3 acts, music by

Louis Alexandre Piccinni Louis Alexandre Piccinni (variously Louis Alexandre, Luigi Alessandro or Lodovice Alessandro) (10 September 1779 – 24 April 1850) was a prolific music composer born in Paris of Italian ancestry. Alexandre Piccinni was born in Paris. The gra ...

*1829: ''Le Ménage du maçon ou les Mauvaises Connaissances'', pièce dramatique in 6 days with Dubois-Devesnes *1829: ''Le Séducteur et son élève'', drama in 2 acts *1830: ''André le chansonnier'', drama in 2 acts, mingled with Fontan *1830: ''La Leçon de dessin ou Mon ami Polycarpe'', comedy in 1 act with Dubois-Davesnes *1831: ''Casimir ou le Premier Tête-à-tête'',

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 2 acts, music by

Adolphe Adam Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets ''Giselle'' (1841) and '' Le corsaire'' (1856), his operas ''Le pos ...

*1831: ''Le Faubourien'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act *1831: ''Les Polonais ou Février 1831'',

impromptu An impromptu (, , loosely meaning "offhand") is a free-form musical composition with the character of an ''ex tempore'' improvisation as if prompted by the spirit of the moment, usually for a solo instrument, such as piano. According to ''Allgeme ...

mingled with couplets *1831: ''Le Voyage de la Liberté'', play in 4 acts mingled with songs with Fontan *1832: ''Les Chemins de fer'', revue-vaudeville in 1 act with Arago and

Maurice Alhoy Philadelphe-Maurice Alhoy (1802 – 27 April 1856) was a 19th-century French journalist, writer and playwright, born and died in Paris. As journalist Under the Restauration and the July Monarchy, when "every day saw the birth of a new paper" (E ...

, Vaudeville (31 December) *1832: ''Le Russe ou un Conseil de guerre, épisode de novembre 1831'', drama in 2 acts mingled with couplets with

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 ...

*1832: ''L'Île d'amour'', drama in 3 acts with Pujol *1832: ''La Vengeance italienne ou le Français à Florence'', comédie-vaudeville, with

Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, known as Delestre-Poirson (22 August 1790, in Paris – 19 November 1859) was a French playwright and theatre director. Delestre-Poirson was the director of the Gymnase dramatique, from 1820 to 1844 ; his r ...

and

Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of man ...

*1832: ''Voltaire et Madame de Pompadour'', comedy in 3 acts, with

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lafitte Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lafitte (2 June 1796 – 6 March 1879) was a 19th-century French playwright, novelist, journalist and comedian. A pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française, his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of hi ...

*1832: ''Le Naufrage de la Méduse'', drama in 5 acts, with

*1833: ''Le Royaume des femmes ou le Monde à l'envers'', pièce fantastique in 2 acts, with Théodore Cogniard *1833: ''Le Souper du mari'', opéra comique in 1 act, with Hippolyte Cogniard *1833: ''Le Mariage par ordre'', épisode de l'histoire de Russie, drame-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Pujol *1834: ''Caravage (1599)'', drama in 3 acts, with Pujol *1834: ''Le Facteur ou la Justice des hommes'', drama in 5 acts, with

Charles Potier Charles Joseph Édouard Potier, called Charles (Bordeaux, 1806 – Asnières-sur-Seine, 28 April 1870) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. A son of Charles-Gabriel Potier, an actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1826), the Théâtr ...

and Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé *1834: ''Un enfant'', drama in 4 acts, imitated from the novel by

Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle (Châtel-Censoir (Yonne) 20 vendémiaire an X – Paris 12 October 1859 ) was a French writer and playwright. He published his novels under the pseudonym Ernest Desprez and all his plays under the name Jules Cord ...

*1834: ''Tout chemin mène à Rome'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Lafitte *1834: ''Un soufflet'', comédie vaudeville in 1 act, with Ennery *1835: ''La Femme du voisin'', comédie vaudeville in 1 act *1835: ''Zazezizozu'', féerie-vaudeville in 5 acts *1835: ''Marguerite de Quélus'', drama in 3 acts, with

Paul Foucher Paul-Henri Foucher (21 April 1810 – 24 January 1875) was a French playwright, theatre and music critic, political journalist, and novelist. Biography Early career Foucher was born in Paris and began his career as an employee in the offices of t ...

and Alexandre de Lavergne *1835: ''La Traite des Noirs'', drama in 5 acts and

extravaganza An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure. It sometimes also ha ...

, with Pujol *1835: ''L'Ombre du mari'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Agénor Altaroche Agénor Altaroche (18 April 1811 – 13 May 1884) was a French journalist, chansonnier and man of letters, Commissioner of the Provisional Government for the Puy-de-Dôme Puy-de-Dôme (; oc, label=Auvergnat, lo Puèi de Doma or ''lo Puèi Dom ...

*1835: ''Chérubin ou le Page de Napoléon'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Adrien Payn and Adrien Delaville *1836: ''Madeleine la sabotière'', comédie vaudeville in 2 acts, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard and Lafitte *1836: ''La Folle'', drama in 3 acts *1836: ''Vaugelas ou le Ménage d'un savant'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act *1836: ''Valérie mariée, ou Aveugle et Jalouse'', drama in 3 acts, with Lafitte *1836: ''Le Puits de Champvert ou l'Ouvrier lyonnais'', drama in 3 acts *1836: ''Pierre le Grand'', drama in 5 acts, with Hippolyte Auger *1836: ''Je suis fou'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Foucher *1836: ''L'Épée de mon père'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act *1837: ''La Nouvelle Héloïse'', drama in 3 acts, 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 ...

*1837: ''Paul et Julien, ou les Deux Vocations'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts *1837: ''Le Petit Chapeau ou le Rêve d'un soldat'', fantastic drama in 6 parts *1837: ''Le Bouquet de bal'', comedy in 1 act *1837: ''L'Ombre de Nicolet ou De plus fort en plus fort !'', vaudeville épisodique in 1 act, with Charles Labie *1837: ''Rita l'espagnole'', drama in 4 acts, with Boulé, Jules Chabot de Bouin and

Eugène Sue Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (; 26 January 18043 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated ''The Mysteries of Paris'', which ...

*1837: ''Diane de Poitiers ou Deux fous et un roi'', drama in 3 acts, with Hippolyte Rimbaut *1837: ''Valérie mariée, ou Aveugle et Jalouse'', drama in 5 acts, with Lafitte *1838: ''La boulangère a des écus'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Gabriel de Lurieu Gabriel de Lurieu (real name Gabriel-Zéphirin Gonyn de Lurieu; Paris, 28 October 1799 (7 brumaire year VIII) – Paris, 5 February 1889 ) was a French author and playwright. His brother Jules-Joseph-Gabriel de Lurieu (1792–1869), with whom ...

and

Emmanuel Théaulon Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite Théaulon de Lambert (14 August 1787, Aigues-Mortes – 16 November 1841) was a French playwright. A customs inspector, then an inspector of military hospitals, he composed an ''Ode'' on the birth of the King o ...

*1838: ''La Maîtresse d'un ami'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Chabot de Bouin *1838: ''Alix ou les Deux Mères'', drama in 5 acts, with

Alphonse Brot Charles Alphonse Brot (12 April 1807 – 3 January 1895) was a prolific French author and playwright. Life Charles Alphonse Brot was born on 12 April 1807 in Paris. He studied at the Lycée Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet), in the 9th arrond ...

*1838: ''Le Général et le Jésuite'', drama in 5 acts *1838: ''Richard Savage'', drama in 5 acts *1838: ''Les Bédouins en voyage'', « odyssée africaine en trois chants » *1839: ''Les Filles de l'enfer'', fantastic drama in 4 acts, with

Charles Dupeuty Charles Désiré Dupeuty (6 February 1798 – 20 October 1865), was a 19th-century French librettist and playwright. Biography After he studied at the Lycée Impérial, he enrolled in the army during the Hundred Days then worked as an employ ...

*1839: ''La Branche de chêne'', drama in 5 acts, with Charles Lafont *1840: ''Ralph le bandit ou les Souterrains de Saint-Norbert'', melodrama in 5 acts *1840: ''Aubray le médecin'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Bernard Lopez *1840: ''Le Tremblement de terre de la Martinique'', drama in 5 acts, with Lafont *1840: ''Mazagran, bulletin de l'armée d'Afrique'', in 3 acts, with

Ferdinand Laloue Ferdinand Laloue (1794 in Passy – 27 September 1850) was a French dramatist, librettist and theatre producer. Administrator of the Théâtre du Cirque-Olympique, he also was director of the Hippodrome and the théâtre des Délassements comique ...

*1841: ''Le Débutant, ou l'Amour et la Comédie'', comedy in 1 act mingled with couplets *1841: ''Le Marchand d'habits'', drama in 5 acts, with Potier *1841: ''La Vie d'un comédien'', comedy in 4 acts, with Eugène Labat *1841: ''La Mère de la débutante ou Je serai comédienne'', comedy in 2 acts mingled with couplets *1842: ''Claudine'', drama in 3 acts drawn from the short story by

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (March 6, 1755 in the château of Florian, near Sauve, Gard – September 13, 1794 in Sceaux) was a French poet, novelist and fabulist. Life Florian's mother, a Spanish lady named Gilette de Salgues, died whe ...

, with Lubize *1842: ''La Caisse d'épargne'', comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts *1842: ''Une jeunesse orageuse'', comedy in 2 acts, with

Louis Bergeron Louis Bergeron (1 October 1811 in Chauny – 1 August 1890 in Croissy) was a 19th-century French journalist, writer and playwright. Works *1833: ''Campagnes d'Espagne et de Portugal sous l'Empire'' *1839: ''Fables démocratiques'' *1839: ''Un ...

*1842: ''La Plaine de Grenelle, 1812'', drama in 5 acts, with Hippolyte Leroux *1843: ''6000 francs de récompense'', drama in 5 acts *1843: ''Sur les toits'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Charles Foliguet *1843: ''La Chambre verte'', comedy in 2 acts mingled with song, with Foliguet *1844: ''Jacques le corsaire'', drama in 5 acts, with Eugène Nus *1845: ''Enfant chéri des dames'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Karl Holbein *1845: ''L'Enseignement mutuel'', comedy in 3 acts in

prose Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the f ...

, with Eugène Nus *1846: ''Montbailly ou la Calomnie'', drama in 5 acts *1847: ''Le Trésor du pauvre'', drama in 3 acts, mingled with songs, with Eugène Nus *1847: ''Jeanne d'Arc'', drama in 5 acts and 10

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*1847: ''Rose et Marguerite ou Faut-il des époux assortis'', comedy in 3 acts, with Charles-Henri-Ladislas Laurençot *1848: ''Arme au bras !...'', chanson dédiée à la garde nationale d'Amiens *1849: ''Le Comte de Sainte-Hélène'', drama in 5 acts and 7 tableaux, 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 ...

and Eugène Nus *1849: ''Le Congrès de la paix'', vaudeville in 1 act *1849: ''Les Trois étages, ou Peuple, Noblesse et Bourgeoisie'', drama in 3 acts *1850: ''Le Roi de Rome'', drama in 5 acts, with

preceded by ''Napoléon'',

prologue A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ...

in 2 parts followed by ''La Ville éternelle'',

epilogue An epilogue or epilog (from Greek ἐπίλογος ''epílogos'', "conclusion" from ἐπί ''epi'', "in addition" and λόγος ''logos'', "word") is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the w ...

in 2 tableaux *1850: ''Le Sopha'', prologue-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Eugène Labiche Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".Mélesville Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, pen-name Mélesville (13 December 1787 in Paris – 7 November 1865 in Marly-le-Roi) was a French dramatist. The playwright Mélesville fils was his son. Life The son of Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier, M� ...

, preceded by ''Schahabaham XCIV'' *1851: ''La Dame aux trois couleurs'', comédie-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Charles Raymond, Théâtre du Gymnase (18 June) *1851: ''L'Ivrogne et son enfant'', vaudeville in 2 acts *1851: ''Le Testament d'un garçon'', drama in 3 acts, in prose, with Eugène Nus *1852: ''La Bergère des Alpes'', drama in 5 acts, with d'Ennery *1852: ''Les Gaîtés champêtres'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Jules Janin Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 – 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Life and career Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Gra ...

Armand Durantin Anne-Adrien-''Armand'' Durantin, also called Armand de Villevert, (4 April 1818 – 30 December 1891) was a 19th-century French playwright and novelist. Biography First a lawyer, Durantin turned to literature and collaborated with the ''France ...

and Léon Guillard *1855: ''La Rentrée à Paris'', popular drame in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles

References

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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», ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', Hachette, 1858, p. 523, on Gallica * Gustave Vapereau, ''L'Année littéraire et dramatique'', vol.1, 1858, p. 450 * François Cavaignac, ''Eugène Labiche ou la Gaieté critique'', 2003, p. 29 * Anne-Simone Dufief, Jean-Louis Cabanès, ''Le Roman au théâtre : Les Adaptations théâtrales au XIXe siècle'', 2005, p. 64 {{DEFAULTSORT:Desnoyer, Charles 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French male actors French male stage actors French theatre managers and producers 1806 births Writers from Paris 1858 deaths