Gabriel-Alexandre Belle (4 March 1782 – 20 October 1855) was a 19th-century French writer 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 ...

. Belle was honoured by being made a .

Biography

A former commissioner of war, a member of the Soupers de Momus, an editor at the ''La Nouveauté'' newspaper, Director of the magazine ''Discours prononcé à la séance publique de la Société académique des Enfans d'Apollon'', his

plays Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * Pla ...

were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre de la Gaîté,

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 ...

Théâtre des Variétés The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle ...

etc.

Works

*1807: ''La paix ou l'heureux retour'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Paul Ledoux *1811: ''Ode, stances et pot-pourri sur la naissance de S. M. le Roi de Rome'' *1817: ''Femme à vendre, ou le Marché écossais'', folie in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Paul Gentilhomme *1818: ''Crillon et Bussy d'Amboise'', historical fact 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 Gentilhomme *1818: ''M. Sans-Souci, ou le Peintre en prison'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Paul Ledoux *1818: ''Le Retour à Valenciennes, ou Rentrons chez nous'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

Armand Gouffé Armand Gouffé (22 March 1775 – 19 October 1845) was a 19th-century French poet, chansonnier, goguettier and vaudevillist. Career Hired as an employee in the Finance Ministry, he became chief deputy. Afflicted with a delicate health and in ...

*1818: ''Karabi, ou l'île des piqures'', vaudeville, with Gouffé *1819: ''Le Hussard et le Tambour'', vaudeville, with Petit-maitre *1820: ''Monsieur Fougères, ou le Peintre du Marché-aux-Fleurs'', vaudeville, with Gouffé *1821: ''Le fruit défendu'', one-act vaudeville, with

François-Pierre-Auguste Léger François-Pierre-Auguste Léger (Bernay, Eure, 16 March 1766 – Paris, 28 March 1823) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright. Short biography The son of a surgeon, he became a tutor for sons of the bourgeoisie then left teaching to join a ...

*1821: ''Les Voleurs supposés'', one-act comédie en vaudevilles , with W. Lafontaine and

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� ...

*1821: ''Le Bureau des nourrices'', folie in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Frédéric Dupetit-Méré *1822: ''Amour et Caprice'', vaudeville, with W. Lafontaine *1822: ''Les Dames Martin, ou le Mari, la femme et la veuve'', one-act

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. ...

, with W. Lafontaine and

Henri de Tully Jules-Henry de Tully (1 May 1798 – 12 July 1846) was a French librettist and playwright. Life A deputy Commissioner of the king at the Monnaie de Paris, a member of the Société Lyrique, an administrator of the Théâtre du Luxembourg, he ...

*1823: ''La Caserne, ou le Changement de garnison'', tableau militaire in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with

Paul Ledoux Paul Ledoux (8 August 1914 – 6 October 1988) was a Belgian astrophysicist best known for his work on stellar stability and variability. With Theodore Walraven, he co-authored a seminal work on stellar oscillations. In 1964 Ledoux was awa ...

*1824: ''La Fille du commissaire'', vaudeville, with B. Antier *1824: ''Le Roi René, ou la Provence au 15e siècle'', two-act

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 ...

, with

Sewrin Sewrin, real name Charles-Augustin Bassompierre, (9 October 1771 – 22 April 1853�Paris», ''Journal de débats'', 24 avril 1853, at Gallica) was a French playwright and goguettier. In addition to his writing of comedies, opéras-comiques, ...

*1824: ''La Tante et la nièce, ou C'était moi'', one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Gouffé *1825: ''Le Point d'honneur'', vaudeville in 1 act from the ''Contes'' by Adrien de Sarrasin, with

Benjamin Antier Benjamin Antier, real name Benjamin Chevrillon, (21 March 1787 – 25 April 1870), was a 19th-century French playwright. An author of melodramas and vaudevilles written in collaboration with other dramatists, he is mostly known for his drama ''L ...

*1828: ''La Circulaire'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Jacques-André Jacquelin

Bibliography

Joseph-Marie Quérard Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the fi ...

, ''La littérature française contemporaine: XIXth century'', vol.1, 1842, (p. 248-249) * Paul Chéron, ''Catalogue général de la librairie française au XIXth century'', 1856, (p. 713)

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Gabriel-Alexandre Belle
on Data.bnf.fr 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights Knights of the Legion of Honour Writers from Paris 1782 births 1855 deaths {{France-playwright-stub