Pierre-Antoine-Augustin (17 September 1755, Paris22 May 1832, Paris), chevalier de Piis was a French dramatist and
man of letters
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. With
Pierre-Yves Barré
Pierre-Yves Barré (17 April 1749 – 2 May 1832) was a French vaudevillist and songwriter.
Life
Barré was born in Paris. He began life as a lawyer to the French parliament, then court clerk in Pau, but as the nephew of the chans ...
he was one of the co-founders of Paris's
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 ...
.
He was the son of Pierre-Joseph de Piis,
chevalier de Saint-Louis
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and major to the Cap Français, and as such was intended for service in France's colonial army. However, due to his delicate health, he gave up the military and completed at the
collège d'Harcourt
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the studies he had begun at the
Louis le-Grand.
Sources
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Ferdinand Hoefer, ''Nouvelle biographie générale'', t. 40, Paris, Firmin Didot, frères, 1862, .
*
Louis Gustave Vapereau, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876,
External links
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Writers from Paris
1755 births
1832 deaths
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Police officers from Paris