Léonard Décade Tousez (1788–1826) was a 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 ...

of the 19th century.

Biography

Tousez was born in Paris. An actor at the

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(1816-1826), he played the handsome young men in ''Les Bolivars et les Morillos ou Les amours de Belleville'' (1819) by

Armand d'Artois Armand d'Artois (3 October 1788 – 28 March 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist, and also Achille d'Artois's brother. Biography Trained for the bar, he first worked as an attorney but the success of his play ''Les Fin ...

and

Gabriel de Lurieu Gabriel de Lurieu (real name Gabriel-Zéphirin Gonyn de Lurieu; Paris, 28 October 1799 (7 brumaire year VIII) – Paris, 5 February 1889 ) was a French author and playwright. His brother Jules-Joseph-Gabriel de Lurieu (1792–1869), with whom ...

as well as, inter alia, in ''Le témoin ou La Porte-Maillot'' (1820) by

Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of man ...

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and Xavier Boniface. In 1818, he married Charlotte Zoë Régnier de la Brière, an actress and

François-Joseph Regnier François-Joseph-Philoclès Regnier de La Brière called Regnier (1 April 1807, in Paris – 27 April 1885, in Paris) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. The comedian Alcide Tousez was his uncle. Biography After he studied at the ...

's mother. He took part in the composition of several

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of the boulevard theatre genre which were presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique and the

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. He lost reason while performing in 1826 and died in the asylum at Charenton.''Biographies des artistes dramatiques par nos meilleurs auteurs contemporains'', 1848,
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Works

*1820: ''Les bons gendarmes'', poème épique en deux chants, with Charles Odry *1823: ''L'atelier de peinture'', tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with

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*1823: ''Le Chevalier d'honneur'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Sewrin and

Nicolas Gersin Nicolas Gersin (born 1765 – died December 1833 at Chantilly) was a French playwright and librettist. An uncle of Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps who studied in his home, his plays have been performed on the most important Parisian sta ...

*1823: ''Le Lithographe, ou les Scènes populaires'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Sewrin *1825: ''Le Point d'honneur'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

Benjamin Antier Benjamin Antier, real name Benjamin Chevrillon, (21 March 1787 – 25 April 1870), was a 19th-century French playwright. An author of melodramas and vaudevilles written in collaboration with other dramatists, he is mostly known for his drama ''L ...

Bibliography

* François-Antoine Harel, ''Dictionnaire théâtral ou, douze cent trente-trois vérités...'', 1824, *

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 ...

, ''Grande biographie dramatique, ou Silhouette des acteurs...'', 1824,
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* Henry Lyonnet, ''Dictionnaire des comédiens français'', 1911,

References

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