Emmanuel Lepeintre, real name Emmanuel Augustin Lepeintre called Lepeintre jeune or Lepeintre Cadet, (22 September 1790 – 24 February 1847) was a French stage actor,

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 ...

and

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 ...

Biographie

He began his acting career aged ten at the

Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes The Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes was an 18th-century Parisian entertainment venue, now defunct, inaugurated in 1790 at 52 rue de Bondy (modern rue René-Boulanger) in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. It had a capacity of 520 spectators.Wild 1 ...

in the role of Cassandra in ''Hasard corrigé par l'amour'', a vaudeville by Philidor Rochelle. A comic actor at the Théâtre des Variétés and at 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 ...

from 1818 to 1843, he played the role of Dugazon in ''Le duel et le déjeuner ou Les comédiens joués'' by

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� ...

(1818) and also that of Hamelin in ''La famille improvisée'' by

Nicolas Brazier Nicolas Brazier (17 February 1783, Paris - 18 February 1838) was a French chansonnier and vaudevillist. Life Son of a boarding school master and author of school manuals, Brazier's education was however strongly neglected due to the French Revo ...

(1840). He was famous for his obesity and his bons mots. Gérard de Nerval, ''Œuvres'', vol.1, Gallimard, 1960, (p. 1441)

Works

*1814: ''La fête de famille'', opéra-vaudeville, impromptu, in 1 act and free verse *1820: ''Le Cirque Bojolay, ou Pleuvra-t-il ? ne pleuvra-t-il pas ?'', à propos-parodie-vaudeville in 1 act *1820: ''Écoutons ! ! !'', scènes improvisées, à l'occasion de la naissance de S. A. R. Mgr le duc de Bordeaux, with

Amable de Saint-Hilaire Amable Vilain de Saint-Hilaire (born 30 November 1799) was a French dramatist whose plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre de la Renaissance ...

*1831: ''M. Mayeux, ou Le Bossu à la mode'', à propos de bosses en 3 tableaux, mêlé de vaudevilles, with Saint-Hilaire and

Eugène Hyacinthe Laffillard Eugène Hyacinthe Laffillard (17 June 1779 – 5 January 1846) was a 19th-century French playwright and chansonnier. A president of the Caveau Moderne in 1839, he participated to numerous literary publications such as the ''Courrier des Théât ...

*1833: ''La Citadelle d'Anvers, ou le Séjour et la conquête'', à-propos en 2 actes, 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 *1840: ''Insomnies de Lepeintre jeune le fracturé, mises au jour, la nuit, par lui et ses deux gardes-malade'' *1840: ''Loisirs d'une convalescence, bêtises de Lepeintre jeune'' *1840: ''Pot-pourri, à propos de la première et dernière représentation de Vautrin'' *1843: ''Physiologie du parrain'' *1848: ''Œuvres badines et posthumes de Lepeintre jeune'', songs, parodies, jokes and puns

Bibliography

* J. Hippolyte Daniel, ''Biographie des hommes remarquables de Seine-et-Oise'', 1837, (p. 77-78)
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* Pierre Larousse, ''Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle'', 1873 * Henry Lyonnet, ''Dictionnaire des comédiens français'', 1911, (p. 355)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lepeintre, Emmanuel French male stage actors 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French chansonniers People from Versailles 1790 births 1847 deaths