Henri Philibert Joseph Delmotte (14 March 1822 – 10 July 1884) was a Belgian playwright, librettist and novelist.
Delmotte was born in
Baudour
Baudour is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Saint-Ghislain, located in the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Notable inhabitants
*Henri Delmotte and Michel Daerden were born in Baudour
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Hainaut and studied law at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles, graduating in 1845.
He entered public service in the Ministry of the Interior, and served as commissioner of the arrondissement in
Nivelles
Nivelles (; nl, Nijvel, ; wa, Nivele; vls, Neyvel) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the former municipalities of Baulers, Bornival, Thines, and Monstre ...
from 1849 to 1859.
[ He worked to establish a French-language national theatre in Belgium and from 1879 to 1880 wrote handbills and highly polemic newspaper articles. Beside numerous magazine articles, Delmotte also published books and comedies, in which he describes the contemporary Belgian middle classes. Delmotte died at ]Brussels
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in 1884.[
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Works
*''Monsieur Du Bois, ou Nouvelle noblesse'', 3-act prose comedy performed in Brussels at the Théâtre Royal du Parc
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on 15 March 1845 and La Monnaie
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on 18 March 1845.
*''Comédies: M. Du Bois ou la nouvelle Noblesse. Le Début. Comment on dovint Conseiller. Le Lanceur d'Affaires''. Paris: Sandoz & Fischbacher, 1873.
References
Belgian writers in French
1822 births
1884 deaths
19th-century Belgian journalists
Male journalists
19th-century Belgian dramatists and playwrights
19th-century Belgian male writers
Belgian male dramatists and playwrights
19th-century Belgian novelists
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