Eugène Bercioux (1822–1898) was a 19th-century French playwright and poet.

Works

*1847: ''Les Arabesques'', poems, 1847 *1850: ''Nisus et Euryale'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with

Léon Battu Léon Battu was a French dramatist, born 1829Walsh T J. ''Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870.'' John Calder (Publishers Ltd), London, 1981, Appendix D, p. 342. in Paris, where he died on 22 November 1857. Life and ...

*1852: ''Mam'sell'Rose'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with

Adrien Decourcelle Adrien Decourcelle (28 October 1821 – 6 August 1892) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. Pierre-Henri-Adrien Decourcelle wrote about 70 plays between 1845 and 1855, comedies and Comédie en vaudeville written most of the time in ...

*1854: ''Après la bataille'', poetry, music by Ernest Boulanger *1855: ''Zamore et Giroflée'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with

Charles Narrey Charles Narrey (1825 in Becques, Nord – 1892 in Paris) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright from an Irish family arrived in France following James II of England. Narrey made his debut in 1847 with both a novel, ''Deux heures de myst ...

*1856: ''

La bonne d'enfant ''La bonne d'enfant'' (''The Nanny'') is an opérette bouffe, in one act by Jacques Offenbach to a French language, French libretto by Eugène Bercioux. It was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris on 14 October 1856. Off ...

'', one-act

opérette bouffe This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most c ...

, music by

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (, also , , ; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera '' ...

*1858: ''Maître Baton'', one-act operetta, music by

Alfred Dufresne Jacques Marie Alfred Dufresne (1822, Orléans – 18 March 1863, Paris) was a 19th-century French composer and playwright. A student of Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatory, he is mostly known for having written music for hundreds of songs ...

*1860: ''La Main du Seigneur'', cantique, poem, music by Boulanger *1861: ''La Malédiction'', poem, music by Boulanger *1878: ''la Fée Caprice'',

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 and in verse, music by Achille Mansour *1883: ''La Nuit du bûcheron'', ballade, music by Boulanger

Bibliography

* Graham Robb, ''La poésie de Baudelaire et la poésie française: 1838–1852'', 1993, (p. 253)

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19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French poets Writers from Rouen 1822 births 1898 deaths {{France-poet-stub