Paul Alexandre Delair (24 October 1842 – 19 January 1894) was a 19th-century French playwright, poet,

chansonnier A chansonnier ( ca, cançoner, oc, cançonièr, Galician and pt, cancioneiro, it, canzoniere or ''canzoniéro'', es, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings o ...

and novelist. An administrator at the

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, he took an active part to the organization of the Exposition universelle of 1889. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th-century, including 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

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Works

*1868: ''La Découverte, ode sur la navigation'' *1870: ''Les Nuits et les réveils'' *1872: ''L’Éloge d'Alexandre Dumas'' *1872: ''La Voix d'en haut'', one-act à-propos dramatique, in verse *1879: ''La Louve d'Alençon'', historical novel *1880: ''Théâtre de campagne'' *1880: ''Garin'', five-act drama, in verse *1881: ''Le Fils de Corneille'', à propos in verse *1882: ''Le Fils du charpentier'', tale in verse *1883: ''Les Rois en exil'', 5-acts play, in 7 tableaux, with

Alphonse Daudet Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet. Early life Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ''bo ...

*1884: ''Le Centenaire de Figaro'', à-propos in verse *1884: ''Les Contes d'à présent avec une lettre de Coquelin aîné sur la poésie dite en public et l'art de la dire'' *1885: ''Apothéose'',

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 verse *1885: ''Louchon'' *1887: ''Délivrance'', cantata, music by

Théodore Dubois Clément François Théodore Dubois (24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French Romantic composer, organist, and music teacher. After study at the Paris Conservatoire, Dubois won France's premier musical prize, the Prix de Rome in 1861. He bec ...

*1887: ''Rabelais à Molière'', verse *1891: '' Hélène'', drama in 4 acts,

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André Messager André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéra comique, opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage wo ...

*1891: ''La Mégère apprivoisée'', four-act comédie lyrique *1891: ''L’Âme des fleurs !'', poetry, incidental music by Jules Massenet *1893: ''La Vie chimérique'', poems *1894: ''Chanson d'automne'', music by

*1895: ''Testament poétique, poésies posthumes'', with

Sully Prudhomme René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme (; 16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. Born in Paris, Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, bu ...

*1897: ''Chansons épiques (Geste de Guillaume)'' *1898: ''Chanson d'hiver !'', music by C. de Grandval *1898: ''Parfums des tilleuls !'', poetry, music by

Clémence de Grandval Clémence de Grandval (21 January 1828 – 15 January 1907), born as Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset and also known as Vicomtesse de Grandval and Marie Grandval, was a French composer of the Romantic era. She was a person and composer of stat ...

*1899: ''Théâtre inédit'' *1899: ''Ma belle m'a dit'', poetry, music by

Charles Cuvillier Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas ''La reine s'amuse'' (1912, played as ''The Naughty Princess'' in London) and with ''The Lilac Domino'', wh ...

*1903: ''Illusion !'', lamento, music by Flégier *1905: ''Musique d'antan'', music by Cuvillier *1908: ''L'Ile des fleurs !'', melody, singing and piano, music by Ange Flégier

Bibliography

Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus (Paris, 19 August 1851 – 1905) was a French journalist and politician, unrelated to his contemporary Captain Alfred Dreyfus. After a classical and commercial education he prepared himself for the École Polytechnique, ...

André Berthelot André Marcel Berthelot (20 May 1862 – 6 June 1938) was the son of the chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot and Sophie Berthelot and a député of the Seine. He was secretary-general of the Grande Encyclopédie starting with the fourth ...

, ''La Grande encyclopédie'', vol.13, 1886, (p. 1161) * Gérard Walch, ''Anthologie des poètes français contemporains'', 1916, (p. 53) *

Robert Sabatier Robert Sabatier (17 August 1923 – 28 June 2012) was a French poet and writer. He wrote numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the Académie Mallarme. He ...

, ''Histoire de la poésie française du XIXe'', vol.2, 1977, (p. 82) * Jacques Delair, ''Paul Delair (1842-1894)'', undated {{DEFAULTSORT:Delair, Paul 1842 births 1894 deaths People from Montereau-Fault-Yonne French chansonniers 19th-century French novelists 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French poets Knights of the Legion of Honour