Marie Joseph Pain (4 August 1773, Paris – March 1830, ibid.) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet and essayist.

Biography

A member of the , censor and office manager at the Prefecture of the Seine under the Bourbon Restoration, chief editor of the magazine ', he is known as one of the pioneers of vaudevillism. His

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, some of which achieved a major success,Marie Nicolas Bouillet, ''Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie'', vol.2, 1867, were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including 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 ...

, the Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique, and the

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 ...

Works

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. *1792: ''Saint-Far, ou la Délicatesse de l'amour'', comedy in 1 act, in verse *1794: ''Les Chouans, ou La Républicaine de Malestroit'', with François Marie Joseph Riou de Kersalaün *1794: ''Le Naufrage au port'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles *1798: ''Le Roi de pique'', comedy in 1 act and in verse *1798: ''L'Appartement à louer'', comedy épisodique mingled with vaudevilles *1799: ''Le Connaisseur'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles *1799: ''La Marchande de plaisir'', vaudeville in 1 act *1800: ''Florian'', comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (24 January 1763 – 14 April 1842) was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for writing a libretto, supposedly based on a true story, about a woman who ...

*1800: ''Téniers'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly *1801: ''Allez voir Dominique'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles *1802: ''Berquin, ou l'Ami des enfans'', comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly *1802: ''Le Méléagre champenois, ou la Chasse interrompue'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act *1802: ''Le Procès, ou la Bibliothèque de Patru'', comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles *1803: '' Fanchon la vielleuse'', comedy in 3 acts, mingled with vaudeville, with Bouilly *1804: ''Théophile, ou les Deux poètes'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with

Théophile Marion Dumersan Théophile Marion Dumersan (4 January 1780, Plou, Cher – 13 April 1849, Paris) was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections, librettos, and novels, as well as a numismatist and curator attached to the Cabinet ...

*1805: ''La Belle Marie'', comédie-anecdote in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan *1805: ''Le Portrait du duc'', comedy in 3 acts and in prose, with Ludwig Benedict Franz von Bilderbeck *1806: ''Brutal, ou Il vaut mieux tard que jamais'', vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, parodie of ''Uthal'', with Pierre-Ange Vieillard *1806: ''Point d'adversaire'', opéra comique in 1 act *1807: ''Amour et mystère, ou Lequel est mon cousin ?'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles *1807: ''Laurette'', opera in 1 act, music by Stanislas Champein *1808: ''La Chaumière moscovite'', vaudeville anecdote in 1 act, with Dumersan *1808: ''Rien de trop'', comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles *1809: ''Benoît ou Le pauvre de Notre Dame'', comédie-anecdote in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan *1809: ''Le Roi et le pèlerin'', comedy in 2 acts and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Dumersan *1809: ''Le Manuscrit déchiré'', bagatelle (trifle) in 1 act, in prose *1810: ''Le Père d'occasion'', comedy in 1 act, with Vieillard *1810: ''La Vieillesse de Piron'', comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Bouilly *1810: ''L'Homme de quarante ans, ou Le Rôle de comédie'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles *1810: ''Encore une partie de chasse, ou le Tableau d'histoire'', comédie-anecdote in 1 act, in verse, with Dumersan *1810: ''Deux pour un'', comedy in 1 act mingled with vaudevilles, with Henri Dupin *1810: ''Rien de trop ou Les Deux paravents'', opéra comique in 1 act, music by François-Adrien Boïeldieu *1811: ''Le Dîner d'emprunt, ou Les lettres de Carnaval'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Dupin *1812: ''Les Mines de Beaujonc, ou Ils sont sauvés'', fait historique in 3 acts, mingled with couplets, with Dumersan *1813: ''Les Rêveurs éveillés'', parade magnétique in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Vieillard *1816: ''Le Revenant, ou l'Héritage'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, in prose, with Dupin *1818: ''La Statue de Henri IV, ou la Fête du Pont-Neuf'', tableau grivois in 1 act, with René de Chazet,

Marc-Antoine Désaugiers Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1742 – 10 September 1793) was a French composer of numerous operas as well as a cantata on the storming of the Bastille and several pieces of sacred music. He was born in Fréjus. He studied music there but was largely ...

and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac *1819: ''Voyage au hasard'' *1820: ''Poésies de M. Joseph Pain'' *1823: ''Jenny la Bouquetière'', opéra comique, with Bouilly *1826: ''Le Bonhomme'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with

Pierre Carmouche Pierre Carmouche (9 April 1797 - 9 December 1868) was a French playwright and chansonnier. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies, comédies en vaudevilles and texts for opéras comiques, in collaboration with diverse authors - Brazi ...

and

Antoine Simonnin Antoine Simonnin, full name Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Simonnin, (Paris, 11 January 1780 – Paris, 14 May 1856) was a 19th-century French writer and dramatist. Simonnin wrote, alone or in collaboration, more than 200 comédies en vaudeville, parodies ...

*1828: ''Nouveaux tableaux de Paris, ou Observations sur les mœurs et usages des Parisiens au commencement du XIXe siècle'', 2 vols *1844: ''Adieux à l'Aveyron'', in ''Poésies aveyronnaises'' by Adrien de Séguret

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 France littéraire ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants'', 1834, * Marie-Nicolas Bouillet, ''Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie'', vol.2, 1867, *

Charles Dezobry Louis Charles Dezobry (4 March 1798 – 16 August 1871) was a 19th-century French historian and historical novelist, born at St-Denis. Works * ''Rome au siècle d'Auguste, ou Voyage d'un Gaulois à Rome à l'époque du règne d'Auguste et p ...

, Théodore Bachelet, ''Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire'', vol.2, 1873, * John Oxenford, ''The Book of French Songs'', 1877, * Henry Gidel, ''Le vaudeville'', 1986,

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