Louis-Nicolas Brette Saint-Ernest (3 May 1802 – 10 March 1860) was a 19th-century French actor and
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 ...
.
Biography
A master study in Paris and assistant bricklayer, he began acting in 1829 before being hired in 1832 by the
Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin. He then played for 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 ...
from 1837 to 1852. He often appeared in the role of the father in many sentimental plays.
Most of the time, his own plays that he signed Saint-Ernest, were presented at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, of which he was managing director from 1848 to 1852. In 1852, he became
dramaturge
A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...
on the stage of the
théâtre du Cirque, a position he still held when he died in 1860.
Works
*1832: ''Le naufrage de la Méduse''
*1834: ''Le juif errant''
*1835: ''Jeanne de Flandre''
*1837: ''Le corsaire noir''
*1837: ''L'honneur de ma mère''
*1837: ''Rose Ménard, ou Trop bonne mère'', three-act drama, preceded by lAîné et le cadet'',
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 ...
in 1 act, with
Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé
Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé (1 September 1799, in Paris – 3 July 1865, in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright.
A secretary at the Théâtre des Variétés, his plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time in ...
*1838: ''Le chevalier du Temple''
*1838: ''Don Pèdre le mendiant'', four-act drama, with
Fabrice Labrousse
*1838: ''L'élève de Saint-Cyr''
*1841: ''Jacques Coeur, l'argentier du roi''
*1842: ''Gaëtan il Mammone''
*1844: ''Jeanne'', drama in 6 parts and 2 periods, with Boulé and
Jules Chabot de Bouin
*1845: ''Les mousquetaires''
*1845: ''Les talismans''
*1846: ''La closerie des genêts''
*1850: ''Notre Dame de Paris''
*1851: ''Henri le Lion'', drama in 6 acts and 2 periods, with
Eugène Fillot
Bibliography
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Gustave Vapereau
Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''.
Biography
...
, ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', 1861, (p. 1545)
* Henry Lyonnet, ''Dictionnaire des comédiens français'', 1911, (p. 617)
* Claude Schopp, ''Le théâtre historique: Directeurs, décorateurs, musique'', 2009, (p. 71)
19th-century French male actors
French male stage actors
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French theatre managers and producers
Actors from Orléans
1802 births
1860 deaths
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