Eugène Fillot (? – 4 August 1862 in Paris) was a 19th-century French

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 ...

. His plays were presented at the Théâtre de Montmartre (of which he was managing director in 1838–1839), 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 ...

and the Théâtre de la Gaîté.

Works

*1836: ''Le Camarade de chambrée'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with

Mathieu Barthélemy Thouin Mathieu Barthélemy Thouin (born 1804 in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiq ...

*1836: ''Les Petits métiers'', tableau populaire in 1 acte, mingled with

couplets 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 ...

, with Thouin *1837: ''L'École de danse à 75 centimes le cachet'', tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Thouin *1837: ''Les Pages du Czar, ou Lequel des deux ?'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Thouin *1838: ''La barrière des martyrs'', prologue in 1 act, with Thouin *1843: ''Cantatrice et marquise'', comédie en vaudeville in 3 acts, with Thouin *1847: ''Les filles d'honneur de la reine'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Thouin *1851: ''Henri le Lion'', drama in 6 acts and 2 periods, with

Louis-Nicolas Brette Saint-Ernest Louis-Nicolas Brette Saint-Ernest (3 May 1802 – 10 March 1860) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. Biography A master study in Paris and assistant bricklayer, he began acting in 1829 before being hired in 1832 by the Théâtre ...

*1851: ''Un vendredi'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act *1853: ''Le Roi, la dame et le valet'', comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Thouin

Sources

* Joseph Marie Quérard, ''La littérature française contemporaine. XIXe siècle'', 1848, (p. 498) 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French theatre managers and producers Place of birth missing Year of birth missing 1862 deaths {{France-playwright-stub