Jules de Wailly, full name Augustin Jules de Wailly (12 September 1806 – 12 July 1866) 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 ... . He was
Gustave and
Léon de Wailly 's brother.
The son of
Étienne-Augustin de Wailly , and grandson of
Noël François de Wailly
Noël François de Wailly (31 July 1724 – 7 April 1801) was a French Philologist, grammarian and lexicographer.
Life
He was born at Amiens. He was student of Joseph Valart and Philippe de Prétot.
Noël François de Wailly spent his life in ... , an official at the Interior Ministry (1840), his
plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of the 19th century including the
Théâtre des Variétés , the
Comédie-Française , the
Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique , and 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 ... .
Works
*1839: ''Le Comité de bienfaisance'', comedy in 1 act, with
Charles Duveyrier
*1841: ''La Maschera'',
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 ... in 2 acts
*1843: ''Un Péché de jeunesse'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with song, with
Joseph Isidore Samson
*1844: ''Le Mari à la campagne'', comedy in 3 acts, with
Jean-François-Alfred Bayard
*1844: ''Un Amant malheureux'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts
*1845: ''Deux compagnons du tour de France'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with
Lockroy
Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (February 17, 1803 – January 19, 1891)Death notice Gustave de Wailly
Gustave de Wailly, full name Gabriel Gustave de Wailly, (13 June 1804 – 27 April 1878 ) was a 19th-century French playwright and Latinist. Léon de Wailly was his brother.
Biography
Brought up in a family of writers and academics, master of r ... Armand Joseph Overnay
Armand Joseph Overnay (1 November 1798 – 14 September 1869) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright.
He was a son of the chansonnier Nicolas Jean Marie Overnay (born in 1769), one of the members of the Soupers de Momus, and an ex ... Germain Delavigne
Louis Marie Germain Delavigne (1 February 1790 – 3 November 1868) was a French playwright and librettist.
Delavigne was born in Giverny to Louis-Augustin-Anselme Delavigne, a surveyor of the French royal forests, and his wife. He was the broth ... Paul Henrion
*1873: ''Å’uvres de MM. Alfred, Gustave et Jules de Wailly'', Firmin-Didot, (posthumous)
Bibliography
* Joseph Marie Quérard , ''La littérature française contemporaine: XIXe siècle'', 1857, (p. 592)
* ''Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time'', 1870, (p. 562)
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19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
1806 births
Writers from Paris
1866 deaths
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