Gustave Dardoize (18 April 1824 – 18 November 1864), known as Gustave Harmant, was a 19th-century French

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from Paris. Harmant was managing director of the Théâtre de la Gaité and later of the

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(1864-1865). His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time:

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, Théâtre de l'Odéon etc.

Plays

*1852 : ''L'Original et la Copie'',

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in 1 act and in verses, with

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*1852 : ''Le Parapluie de Damoclès'', comedy in 2 acts mingled with couplets, with

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and Ernest Lehmann *1854 : ''Une partie de cache-cache'',

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in 2 acts, with Lehmann *1854 : ''Quand on n'a pas le sou...'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

Arsène de Cey Arsène de Cey, real name François-Arsène Chaise de Cahagne (2 March 1806 - 20 November 1887) was a French playwright and novelist. A civil servant at the Ministry of Public Works (1858), his Play (theatre), plays were performed on the most imp ...

*1855 : ''55 francs de voiture'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

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*1857 : ''Théâtre d'Elbeuf... Elbeuf dans de beaux draps'', à-propos vaudeville in one act *1860 : ''Le Capitaine Georgette'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Delacour and

Paul Siraudin Pierre-Paul-Désiré Siraudin (18 December 1812 – 8 September 1883) was a French playwright and librettist. He also used the pen names Paul de Siraudin de Sancy, Paul Siraudin de Sancy and M. Malperché. Biography He wrote many plays, mai ...

*1860 : ''Quelle mauvaise farce !'', vaudeville en 1 act, with Alexandre Guyon and

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*1867 : ''Observations tendant à la suppression du droit des indigents sur les spectacles''; followed by ''courte réponse à M. Husson directeur général de l'assistance publique à Paris'', with Hippolyte Cogniard, Eugène Déjazet, Hippolyte Hostein and Montigny

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Edmond de Goncourt Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (; 26 May 182216 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. Biography Goncourt was born in Nancy. His parents, Marc-Pierre Huot d ...

Jules de Goncourt Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (; 17 December 183020 June 1870) was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy of a stroke br ...

, '' Journal; Mémoires de la Vie Littéraire: 1891-1896'', 1956, t.1, (p. 821-823); t.2, (p. 134) * Louis Bouilhet, Maria Luisa Cappello, ''Lettres à Gustave Flaubert'', 1996, (p. 26) 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French male dramatists and playwrights 1824 births 1864 deaths Writers from Paris {{France-playwright-stub