Jules Vernet (? - 1845) was a 19th-century French dramatist whose plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, the

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, the

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, and the

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Works

*1816: ''Les jumelles béarnaises'', one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with Émile Cottenet *1816: ''La Magnétismomanie'', one-act comedie-foly mingled with couplets *1816: ''Les Rivaux impromptu sic"', one-act comedy in prose, mingled with couplets *1817: ''Ni l'un, ni l'autre'', tableau villageois, in 1 act, mingled with couplets *1818: ''Une visite à ma tante, ou la Suite des Perroquets'', one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with

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*1819: ''Le Mûrier'', one-act vaudeville *1820: ''Cadet Roussel Troubadour'', one-act comedy, with Joseph Aude and

Ferdinand Laloue Ferdinand Laloue (1794 in Passy – 27 September 1850) was a French dramatist, librettist and theatre producer. Administrator of the Théâtre du Cirque-Olympique, he also was director of the Hippodrome and the théâtre des Délassements comiques ...

*1824: ''La Jeunesse d'un grand peintre, ou les Artistes à Rome'', one-act comedy in prose, mingled with couplets, with W. Lafontaine *1825: ''Belphégor, ou le Bonnet du diable'', one-act

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-féerie, with

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and Henri de Saint-Georges *1833: ''Trois têtes dans un bonnet'', scenes in episodes and vaudevilles *1834: ''Le Mari, la femme et le voleur'', one-act vaudeville, with

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He also was the author of a series of lithographs, with

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, dedicated to the actors at the Théâtre des Variétés (1840).

Bibliography

* Joseph Marie Quérard, ''La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique...'', 1839, (p. 120-121) * Michel Autrand, ''Le théâtre en France de 1870 à 1914'', 2006, (p. 72) 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 1845 deaths {{France-playwright-stub