Paul Henry de Kock, better known as Henry de Kock, (25 April 1819 – 14 April 1892) 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 ...
,
novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...
, and
chansonnier
A chansonnier ( ca, cançoner, oc, cançonièr, Galician and pt, cancioneiro, it, canzoniere or ''canzoniéro'', es, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings o ...
, famous for his salacious novels.
Biography
The son of
Paul de Kock
Charles Paul de Kock (May 21, 1793 in Passy, Paris – April 27, 1871 in Paris) was a French novelist. Although one of the most popular writers of his day in terms of book sales, he acquired a literary reputation for low-brow output in poor tast ...
, he wrote
feuilletons which gained a significant success such as ''La Voleuse d’amour'' (1863), ''L’Auberge des treize pendus'' (1866), ''Folies de jeunesse'' (1866), ''Ni fille, ni femme, ni veuve'' (1867), ''La Fille de son père'' (1869), ''Mademoiselle ma femme'' (1868) or ''Les Douze travaux d’Ursule'' (1885).
His ''Histoire des célèbres courtisanes'', his most famous work, translated into four languages, had nine editions from 1869 to 2008.
His
plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of the 19th-century, including 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 ...
, the
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 ...
, and the .
Works
;Novels
* ''Berthe, l'amoureuse'', G. Roux et O. Cassanet, 1843
* ''La reine des grisettes'', G. Roux et Cassanet, 1844
* ''Le Bon Dieu'', pamphlet républicain, 1848
* ''Brin d'Amour'', A. Cadot, 1850
* ''Minette'', 1852
* ''Les Femmes honnêtes'', L. de Potter, 1852
* ''Deux mères'', H. Boisgard, 1853
* ''Les Petits chiens de ces dames'', A. de Vresse, 1856
* ''La tribu des gêneurs'', A. Cadot, 1857
* ''Les Femmes de la Bourse'', A. Cadot, 1858
* ''Les Mystères du village'', A. Cadot, 1858
* ''Les Femmes honnêtes'', A. Cadot, 1860
* ''La Fille à son père'', F. Sartorius, 1860
* ''Les Amants de ma maîtresse'', 1860
* ''Les Baisers maudits'', F. Sartorius, 1861
* ''La Haine d'une femme'', 1861
* ''Le Démon de l'alcôve'', F. Sartorius, 1862
* ''La Dame aux émeraudes'', A. Cadot, 1862
* ''Les Démons de la mer (la Fiancée du corsaire)'', 1862
* ''La Voleuse d'amour'', A. Faure, 1863
* ''L'Amour bossu'', E. Dentu, 1863
* ''Je t'aime !'', F. Sartorius, 1863
* ''Je me tuerai demain'', F. Sartorius, 1863
* ''La Voleuse d’amour'', 1863
* ''Les Buveurs d'absinthe'', 1863
* ''Les mémoires d'un cabotin'', 1864
* ''Ninie Guignon'', F. Sartorius, 1864
* ''La Chute d'un petit'', F. Sartorius, 1864
* ''La Nouvelle Manon'', A. Faure, 1864
* ''Contes pour tous : Les Pantoufles d'acier : Les Trois talismans'', F. Sartorius, 1864
* ''Les Accapareuses'', A. Faure, 1864
* ''La Reine des grisettes'', A. de Vresse, 1864
* ''Le Roi des étudiants'', A. de Vresse, 1864
* ''Les Petites chattes de ces messieurs'', A. Faure, 1864
* ''Le Roman d'un jocrisse'', F. Sartorius, 1864
* ''Les Treize nuits de Jane : Confessions d'une jolie femme'', A. Cadot, 1864
* ''Les Hommes volants : Histoire extraordinaire'', A. Cadot, 1864
* ''Les Mémoires d'un cabotin'', A. Faure, 1864
* ''La Tigresse'', A. Cadot, 1864
* ''Le Roman d'une femme pâle'', A. Faure, 1865
* ''La Fée aux amourettes'', F. Sartorius, 1865
* ''Le Guide de l'amoureux à Paris d'après le manuscrit original de Mme la Baronne de C***'', A. Faure, 1865
* ''Les Trois luronnes'', 1865
* ''Berthe l'Amoureuse'', 1865
* ''La Vie au hasard'', F. Sartorius, 1866
* ''Ma petite cousine'', F. Sartorius, 1866
* ''L’Auberge des treize pendus'', 1866
* ''Folies de jeunesse : Amours et amourettes'', A. Cadot, 1866
* ''Comment aimait une grisette'', A. Cadot et Degorce, 1867
* ''Ni fille, ni femme, ni veuve'', F. Sartorius, 1867
* ''Beau filou : histoire d'un aimable voleur'', A. Lacroix Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1867
* ''Le Marchand de curiosités'', A. Faure, 1867
* ''Le Crime d'Horace Lignon'', F. Sartorius, 1868
* ''La Chute d'un petit'', 1868
* ''La Fille de son père'', 1869
* ''Le roman d'une femme pâle'', A. de Vresse, 1869
* ''Histoire des courtisanes célèbres'', 1869
* ''Mademoiselle ma femme'', G. Paetz, 1869
* ''Morte et vivante'', Degorce-Cadot, 1870
* ''Mademoiselle Croquemitaine'', F. Sartorius, 1871
* ''Histoire des cocus célèbres'', Bunel, 1871
* ''Souvenirs et notes intimes de Napoléon III à Wilhelmshoehe'', Librairie internationale, 1871
* ''Histoire des libertins et libertines célèbres'', 1871
* ''La Fille d'un de ces messieurs : Petits mystères du siège de Paris'', E. Dentu, 1872
* ''La Grande empoisonneuse'', 1872
* ''L'Art d'être heureux en ménage'', A. Fayard, 1876
* ''Le Futur de ma cousine : Histoire bourgeoise'', E. Dentu, 1876
* ''Le Guide de l'amoureux à Paris'', 1877
* ''L'Amoureuse de son mari'', A. Sagnier, 1878
* ''Le Monde où l'on rit jaune'', A. Degorce-Cadot, 1882
* ''Ratée : Histoire d'hier'', C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1884
* ''Les Douze travaux d'Ursule'', L. Boulanger, 1885
* ''Le Château du bonheur : histoire bourgeoise'', E. Dentu, 1891
;Theatre
*1846: ''L'Eau et le feu'', one-act vaudeville
*1849: ''La Danse des écus'', one-act folie-vaudeville, with Marc Fournier
*1850: ''Qui se dispute, s'adore'', proverbe in one
act, with
Charles Potier
Charles Joseph Édouard Potier, called Charles (Bordeaux, 1806 – Asnières-sur-Seine, 28 April 1870) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright.
A son of Charles-Gabriel Potier, an actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1826), the Théâtr ...
*1850: ''L'Hôtel de Nantes'', one-act vaudeville-carroussel, with
Maurice Alhoy
Philadelphe-Maurice Alhoy (1802 – 27 April 1856) was a 19th-century French journalist, writer and playwright, born and died in Paris.
As journalist
Under the Restauration and the July Monarchy, when "every day saw the birth of a new paper" (E ...
*1850: ''Les Rubans d'Ivonne'', one-act comedy, with
Lambert-Thiboust
Lambert-Thiboust (25 October 1827 – 10 July 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright.
Biography
Lambert-Thiboust began his career as a comedian. He won a prize for tragedy at the Paris Conservatoire in 1848 and briefly pursued acting at th ...
*1853: ''Le Mauvais gas'', drama vaudeville in five acts
*1854: ''La Vie en rose'', five-act play, mingled with songs, with
Théodore Barrière
Théodore Barrière (1823 – 16 October 1877), French playwright, was born in Paris.
He belonged to a family of map engravers which had long been connected with the war department, and spent nine years in that service himself. The success o ...
*1854: ''Le paradis perdu'', five-act drama, mingled with songs, with
Léon Beauvallet
Léon Beauvallet, full name Pierre-Léon-Charles Beauvallet, (22 August 1828 – 22 March 1885) was a 19th-century French actor, playwright and novelist.
Author of numerous plays, most of them written in collaboration, as well as feuilletons pu ...
*1855: ''L'Histoire de Paris'', 3 acts and 14
tableaux
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, with Barrière
*1855: ''Les Grands siècles'', play in three acts and 16 tableaux, with Barrière
*1857: ''Le Panier de pêches'', one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with
Philibert Audebrand
*1857: ''Après la pluie'', one-act comédie-vaudeville
*1859: ''Madame Croquemitaine, ou les Souterrains de la Roche-Noire'', three-act vaudeville, with
Charles Cabot
Charles Antoine Cabot (1806 – 11 February 1886) was a 19th-century French playwright, chansonnier and writer.
First an actor at the theatres de la Gaîté, des Nouveautés, de l'Ambigu, du Cirque and de la Porte Saint-Martin (1837–40), ...
*1860: ''La Maison du Pont Notre-Dame'', drama in five and six tableaux, with Barrière
*1860: ''Les trois amours de Tibulle'', five-act comedy, in verse, with Barrière
*1862: ''Le Minotaure'', one-act vaudeville
*1865: ''Le Fils aux deux mères'', five-act drama including one
prologue
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ...
*1867: ''La Fée aux amourettes'', five-act comédie en vaudevilles, with
Adolphe Guénée
Adolphe Guénée (14 December 1818 in Paris – 16 July 1877 in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright.
The son of a conductor of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, he studied in College Bourbon and made his debut in 1838 at the Théâtre de la ...
*undated: ''Il n'y a plus d'enfants'', nightmare in 3 acts and 9 tableaux, with
Ernest Blum
Ernest Blum (15 August 1836 – 18 September 1907) was a French playwright.
Biography
He made his debut as a writer at the age of sixteen with ''Une femme qui mord''. As a journalist, he was associated with ''Le Charivari'', '' Le Rappel'', ''Le ...
*undated: ''Vade au cabaret'', saynète mingled with songs
;Songs
*1844: ''Mizely !'', romance, lyrics and music
*1863: ''Ninette'', polka for piano
*undated: ''Chant alsacien !'', romance, lyrics and music
*1865: ''La Fée aux amourettes !'', song, lyrics and music
*undated: ''Gurth le matelot !'', chant du soir, lyrics and music
*1865: ''Jeanne qui pleure !'', ditty, lyrics and music
*undated: ''Ma petite Marie !'', romance, lyrics and music
*1869: ''Minette !'', rédowa for piano
Bibliography
* Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, ''La Grande encyclopédie'', vol.21, 1886, (p. 584)
* ''Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events'', vol.17, 1893, (p. 590)
* Donald McCormick, ''Erotic literature: a connoisseur's guide'', 1992, (p. 163)
* Yves Olivier-Martin, ''Histoire du roman populaire en France de 1840 à 1980'', 2013, (p. 99-100)
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19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
19th-century French novelists
French erotica writers
1819 births
Writers from Paris
1892 deaths