Mathurin-Joseph Brisset (22 November 1792 – 7 June 1856) was a French writer, poet, political journalist and playwright of the first half of the 19th century.

Biography

A bodyguard attached to the company of Havré, then an infantry officer during the reigns of

Louis XVIII Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent twenty-three years in ...

and

Charles X Charles X (born Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Lou ...

, he took part to the Spanish campaign (1823) where he was awarded the cross of first class knight of the Order of Saint Ferdinand. He left the army after the

July Revolution The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (french: révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or ("Three Glorious ays), was a second French Revolution after the first in 1789. It led to the overthrow of King ...

of 1830 and landed as political critic by the '' Gazette de France''. He also held there theatrical criticism and devoted himself entirely to writing. Thus, he published a considerable number of historical novels and his plays were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of his time:

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, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Gymnase dramatique etc.

Works

*1816: ''Les Dames du Lis'', poem *1818: ''La Statue de Henri IV'', ode *1818: ''La Salle des Maréchaux'' *1820: ''La Messe de délivrance'' *1820: ''Ernest'' *1821: ''Le Traité de paix'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with

Achille d'Artois Louis Charles Achille d'Artois de Bournonville (17 March 1791 - 2 December 1868) was a French writer, libretist and dramatist. Biography A very prolific librettist, his plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages during hi ...

*1822: ''Le Départ d'une diligence'', tableau épisodique in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Edmond Rochefort *1822: ''Honneur et séduction'', melodrama in 3 acts, with

Louis-Charles Caigniez Louis-Charles Caigniez (13 April 1762 – 19 February 1842) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography Endowed with a real talent for the stage, Caigniez competed on the boulevard theaters with René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt and ...

*1822: ''Le Zodiaque de Paris, à propos du Zodiaque de Denderah'', vaudeville-épisodique in 1 act, with Ferdinand Langlé *1823: ''Le Magasin de lumière'', scènes à-propos de l'éclairage par le gaz, with Ferdinand Langlé, Ramond de la Croisette and

Emmanuel Théaulon Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite Théaulon de Lambert (14 August 1787, Aigues-Mortes – 16 November 1841) was a French playwright. A customs inspector, then an inspector of military hospitals, he composed an ''Ode'' on the birth of the King o ...

*1824: ''Le Retour à la ferme'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Achille d'Artois *1825: ''Madrid, ou observations sur des mœurs et usages des Espagnols au commencement du XIXe siècle'', with

Théodore Anne Théodore Anne (7 April 1797 – 12 August 1869) was a French playwright, librettist, and novelist. Engaged in the army in 1814, until the July Revolution of 1830 he was a member of the compagnie de Noailles then, still faithful to the Bourbons, ...

*1825: ''Les Singes, ou la Parade dans le salon'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

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and Edmond Rochefort *1826: ''La pêche de Vulcain, ou L'île des fleuves'', vaudeville, with Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne and Edmond Rochefort *1827: ''Le coureur de veuves'', comedy in 2 acts *1827: ''Les Dernières amours'', tableau-vaudeville in 1 act *1827: ''Les Rendez-vous'', comédie-vaudeville *1827: ''Paris et Londres'', Comedy in 4

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, with Armand d'Artois *1828: ''Le Peintre et le courtisan'', anecdotical comédie-vaudeville en 1 act *1828: ''L'Anneau de la fiancée'', lyrical drama in 3 acts, with

Felice Blangini Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini (18 November 1781 – December 1841) was an Italian musical composer. Biography Blangini was born in Turin, where, at the age of 12, he became organist of the cathedral. At 14 he led a mass with a full orches ...

*1829: ''Angiolina ou la Femme du doge'', drama in 3 acts *1829: ''Les Deux Raymond, ou les Nouveaux Ménechmes'', 6-chapter novel, with Victor Ducange *1835: ''Le Mauvais œil, tradition dalmate, suivi d'une nouvelle française'' *1837: ''Les Templiers, 1313'' *1838: ''Le Génie d'une femme'' *1840: ''François de Guise, 1563'' *1841: ''Le Balafré, 1572-1587'' *1843: ''Le cabinet de lecture'' *1844: ''Le Béarnais'' *1844: ''La Femme d'un ministre, Mme Roland. 1793'' *1845 ''Le Petit roi'' *1846: ''Madame Jean'', 1846 *1847: ''Les Concini, 1616-1617'' *1849: ''La Maréchale de Saint-André'' *1854: ''Jacquot'' *1854: ''M. de Beauregard'' *1854: ''La Maréchale de Saint-André'' *1859: ''Hugues-le-Cadavre, mystère du XIe siècle''

Bibliography

Pierre Larousse Pierre Athanase Larousse (23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume '' Grand di ...

, ''Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle'', 1865, * Thomas Rossman Palfrey, ''L'Europe littéraire: (1833-1834)'', 1927, * Charles Maillier, ''Trois journalistes drouais: Brisset, Dujarier, Buré'', 1968, * Robert Sabatier, ''Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XIXe siècle'', 1975, * Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz, ''The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian'', 2010, {{DEFAULTSORT:Brisset, Mathurin-Joseph 19th-century French poets 19th-century French journalists French male journalists French political journalists 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French novelists French librettists Writers from Dreux 1792 births 1856 deaths 19th-century French male writers