Maurice Ourry (19 October 1776 – 19 February 1843) was a French poet, playwright and journalist.

Biography

After his studies at the

College of Juilly The College of Juilly ( French: ''Collège de Juilly'') was a Catholic private teaching establishment located in the commune of Juilly, in Seine-et-Marne (France). Directed by the French Oratorians, it was created in 1638 by the congregationis ...

, he moved to Paris in 1794. His career was launched with his first

vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ...

, ''La Danse interrompue'', which obtained an important success. But the

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that followed, even if numerous, would not equal the success of the first. An editor by the ''Journal des arts'' and the ''

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'' of which he became chief editor, after the cessation of the newspaper, he founded the ''Nouveau journal de Paris'', solely dedicated to the arts and literature. He also participated to the Encyclopédie des gens du monde'' and to the ''Dictionnaire de la conversation''. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the

Théâtre des Variétés The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle ...

, 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 ...

, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté. A member of the and the ''Soupers de Momus'', seriously ill, he died from an operation in 1843.

Works

* ''La danse interrompue'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Pierre-Yves Barré, 1795 * ''La Ligue des femmes ou le Roman de la rose'', comédie anecdotique in 1 act, in prose mingled with

s, with de Chazet, 1807 * ''Le Loup-garou'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with

couplet A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the ...

s, with

Francis baron d'Allarde Marie-François-Denis-Thérésa Le Roy Allarde better known as Francis baron d'Allarde (12 March 1778 – 4 October 1841) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright. Biography The son of the politician , he was a journalist in the Un ...

, 1807 * ''Quitte à quitte, ou les Jeunes vieillards'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, 1807 * ''Les Amours de Braillard, ou Tout le monde en veut'', imitation burlesque des ''Amours de Bayard'' by Monvel, in 1 act, in prose, mingled with couplets, 1808 * ''Le Mari juge et partie'', comédy in 1 act and in verses, with de Chazet, 1808 * ''Monsieur Asinard ou Le volcan de Montmartre'', 1809 * ''M. Asinard ou Le Volcan de Montmartre'', folie in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with de Chazet, 1809 * ''Le fils par hasard, ou Ruse et folie'', comedy in 5 acts, in prose, with de Chazet, 1809 * ''Le Jardin, turc'', folie in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1809 * ''Les baladines'', imitation burlesque des ''Bayadères'' by Jouy, folie in 1 act, in prose, mingled with couplets, 1810 * ''Le mai d'amour ou Le rival complaisant'', 1810 * ''Les commissionnaires'', 1-act comedy, 1810 * ''Prologue des ''Ruines de Rome'' '', 1810 * ''Le Mai d'amour, ou le Rival complaisant'', comedy in 1 act and in prose, mingled with couplets, with de Chazet, 1810 * ''Les Époux de trois jours, ou J'enlève ma femme'', 2-act comedy in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Commagny, 1810 * ''L'Acteur dans sa loge'', prologue à travestissements, mingled with couplets, with François-Marie Mayeur de Saint-Paul, 1810 * ''Mahomet Barbe-bleue'', imitation burlesque de ''Mahomet II'',

one-act play A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writi ...

in prose, mingled with couplets, with

Jean-Toussaint Merle Jean-Toussaint Merle (10 June 1785– 27 February 1852) was a French playwright and journalist. Biography Merle had a good education at the Central School of the department of Hérault before arriving in Paris in 1803. At first an employee at ...

, 1811 * ''Prologue d'Arlequin cendrillon'', 1811 * ''Les Sabines de Limoges, ou l'Enlèvement singulier'', vaudeville héroïque in 1 act, with

Philibert Rozet Louis Philibert Rozet (died 11 April 1853) was a French playwright of the 19th century. His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du ...

and Henri Simon, 1811 * ''L'Enfant prodigue, ou le Panier percé'', folie in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1811 * ''Les Hommes femmes'', folie in 1 act mingled with couplets, with de Chazet, 1811 * ''Irons-nous à Paris ? ou Revue de l'an 1810'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Merle, 1811 * ''Ode sur la naissance du roi de Rome'', 1811 * ''Saphirine, ou le Réveil magique'', mélo-féerie in 2 acts

extravaganza An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure. It sometimes also ha ...

, preceded by the Livre du destin,

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 ...

, with Merle, 1811 * ''Une journée de garnison'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with Merle, 1812 * ''Paris volant, ou la Fabrique d'ailes'', folie-épisodique in 1 act in prose and vaudevilles, with Théaulon, 1812 * ''Crispin financier'', comedy in 1 act, with Merle, 1812 * ''La Chevalière d'Éon, ou les Parieurs anglais'', comedy in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudeville, with Commagny, 1812 * ''L'Anglais à Bagdad'', comédie-anecdote in 1 act, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with

Charles-François-Jean-Baptiste Moreau de Commagny Charles-François-Jean-Baptiste Moreau de Commagny (Paris, 1783 – Paris, 1 July 1832) was a French playwright, librettist, poet and chansonnier. His plays, sometimes signed with different names (C.-F.-J.-B. Moreau, C.-A. Moreau, A. Moreau, E ...

, 1812 * ''La Famille mélomane'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with de Chazet, 1812 * ''La Houillière de Beaujonc, ou les Mineurs ensevelis'', grand historical

tableau vivant A (; often shortened to ; plural: ), French language, French for "living picture", is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and ...

, 1812 * ''Jérusalem déshabillée'', parody in un act, in prose and vaudevilles by the opéra de Baour-Lormian, with Commagny 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 ...

, 1812 * ''La Jeunesse de Henri IV ou La Chaumière béarnaise'', one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with

Nicolas Brazier Nicolas Brazier (17 February 1783, Paris - 18 February 1838) was a French chansonnier and vaudevillist. Life Son of a boarding school master and author of school manuals, Brazier's education was however strongly neglected due to the French Revo ...

and Merle, 1814 * ''L'Habit de Catinat, ou La Journée de Marseille'', one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with Merle, 1814 * ''La Batelière du Loiret'', one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with

René de Chazet René de Chazet, full name René André Polydore Balthazar Alissan de Chazet, (23 October 1774 – 23 August 1844) was a French playwright, poet and novelist. Short biography The son of an annuities controller, parent of Mackau, the ambassador ...

, 1815 * ''Malesherbes à St-Denis'', poème élégiaque, 1815 * ''La fille grenadier'', one-act comedy, with Merle, 1816 * ''Poèmes, poésies fugitives, romances, chansons'', 1817 * ''Soirées dramatiques de Jérôme le porteur d'eau'', 1817 * ''Épître au Roi'', 1818 * ''La Leçon d'amour, ou le Rival complaisant'', one-act comedy, in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Merle, 1818 * ''La France délivrée'', ode, 1818 * ''La Maison de Pantin'', one-act comedy, mingled with couplets, with Merle, 1818 * ''Et nous aussi nous chantons les vêpres, ou Fanfan Laqueue aux ''Vêpres siciliennes'' by

Casimir Delavigne Jean-François Casimir Delavigne (4 April 179311 December 1843) was a French poet and dramatist. Life and career Delavigne was born at Le Havre, but was sent to Paris to be educated at the Lycée Napoleon. He read extensively. When, on 20 March ...

'', 1820 * ''Pierre, Paul et Jean'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Charles-Augustin Sewrin, 1821 * ''Monsieur Blaise, ou les Deux Châteaux'', two-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with Sewrin, 1821 * ''La Peste de Barcelonne ou le Dévouement français'', poem, 1821 * ''La Morale du Vaudeville'', chansonnier à l'usage des enfants et jeunes gens des deux sexes, 1822 * ''Thompson et Garrick, ou l'Auteur et l'acteur'', comedy in 1 act and in verses, mingled with vaudevilles, with Jacquelin, 1822 * ''Ninette à la Cour'', play by Favart, revival with changes, with

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 ...

, 1822 * ''Les mauvaises têtes'', one-act comedy, with Sewrin, 1823 * ''L'Écarté, ou Un lendemain de bal'', one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with de Chazet and Jacques-André Jacquelin, 1822 * ''Les Funérailles de Louis XVIII'', stances, 1824 * ''Le nouveau caveau pour 1825'' * ''Le Sacre de Charles X'', ode, 1825 * ''Les Bourbons et la France'', poems, odes, stances, epistles, etc., followed by the translation in verses of ''

The Rape of the Lock ''The Rape of the Lock'' is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's ''Miscellaneous Poems and Translations'' (May 1712) ...

'', by

Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, ...

, 1826 * ''Voltaire à Francfort'', anecdotical comedy in 1 act, with Brazier, 1831 * ''L'Enfance de Boïeldieu'',

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 ...

and anecdotical in 1 act, 1834 * ''Conquêtes de l'homme, le puits artésien de Grenelle'', poème lyrique, 1841 * ''Épître à Mlle Mars sur l'annonce de sa retraite'', 1841 * ''Chants et chansons populaires de la France'', with

Théophile Marion Dumersan Théophile Marion Dumersan (4 January 1780, Plou, Cher – 13 April 1849, Paris) was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections, librettos, and novels, as well as a numismatist and curator attached to the Cabinet ...

Paul Lacroix Paul Lacroix (; 27 February 1806 – 16 October 1884) was a French author and journalist. He is known best by his pseudonym P.L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob, suggested by his great interest in libraries and books generally. Biogra ...

and

Antoine Le Roux de Lincy Antoine Le Roux de Lincy (Paris, 22 August 1806 – Paris, 13 May 1869) was a 19th-century French librarian, romanist and medievalist. After graduating from the École Nationale des Chartes (promotion 1831-1832), Le Roux was appointed at the bib ...

, 1843

Bibliography

Louis Gabriel Michaud Louis-Gabriel Michaud (19 January 1773, Castle Richemont – 8 March 1858) was a French writer, historian, printer, and bookseller. He was notable as the compiler of ''Biographie Universelle'' (1811–). Life He became a lieutenant on 15 July ...

, ''Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne'', 1860, (p. 512) *

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 littératures'', 1884 * Lieven d'Hulst, ''Cent ans de théorie française de la traduction'', 1990, (p. 187)

Honours

* Croix de la

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

(1827) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ourry, Maurice 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French poets 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 1776 births 1843 deaths 19th-century French male writers