Michel-Nicolas Balisson, baron de Rougemont (27 February 1781 - 16 July 1840), was a French journalist, novelist and

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Biography

His family comes from

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. He invented the ''mot de Cambronne''.Jacques Logie, Waterloo: l'évitable défaite, Duculot, 1984, p. 144

Theatre

Rougemont has authored numerous plays, alone or in collaboration. the most importants are : *''Chantons et facéties'' ; *''L’lngénue de Brive-la-Gaillarde'' ; *''Mademoiselle Musard'' ; * 1803 : ''L’Amour à l’anglaise'' ; * 1806 : ''Le Mari supposé'' ; * 1808 : ''Monsieur et Madame Denis'' ; * 1810 : ''Sophie, ou la Nouvelle Cendrillon'' ; * 1811 : ''La Femme innocente, malheureuse et persécutée'' ; * 1811 : ''La Rosière de Verneuil'' ; * 1812 : ''La Matrimonio-manie'' ; * 1821 : ''Le Rôdeur français'' ; * 1820 : ''Le Mariage du ci-devant jeune homme'' ; * 1821 : ''Les Ermites'' comédie-vaudeville in 1 act by

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Aimé Desprez Claude-Aimé Desprez-Saint-Clair (5 April 1783 – 26 April 1824) was a French vaudeville playwright and chansonnier. He himself performed comedy plays and, around 1810, joined the troupe of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique under the name Saint- ...

and Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1826 : ''Pamela, ou la Fille du portier'' ; * 1827 : ''La Laitière de Montfermeil'' ; * 1829 : ''Le Voile bleu''. * 1831 : ''La Fille unique'' ; * 1832 : ''Jeanne Vaubernier, ou la Cour de Louis XV'' ; * 1834 : ''Salvoisy, ou l’Amoureux de la reine'' ; * 1835 : ''Madelon Friquet'' ; * 1835 : ''La Croix d'or'' by

Charles Dupeuty Charles Désiré Dupeuty (6 February 1798 – 20 October 1865), was a 19th-century French librettist and playwright. Biography After he studied at the Lycée Impérial, he enrolled in the army during the Hundred Days then worked as an employ ...

and Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont, Théâtre du Palais Royal * 1836 : ''Léon'', drama in 5 acts, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 1 December * 1837 : ''Les Amants valets'' ; * 1838 : ''La Reine des blanchisseuses'' ; * 1839 : ''La Belle Bourbonnaise'' ;

Sources

Antoine Alexandre Barbier Antoine Alexandre Barbier (11 January 1765 – 5 December 1825) was a French librarian and bibliographer. He was born in Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne). He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801. ...

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, ''Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes'', Paris, Féchoz et Letouzey, 1882, (p. 438).

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