Pierre-Yves Barré (17 April 1749 – 2 May 1832) was a French

vaudevillist 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 ...

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

chanson A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic s ...

nier

Pierre Laujon Pierre Laujon (13 January 1727 – 13 July 1811) was a French playwright and chansonnier. He was uncle to the playwright Pierre-Yves Barré. Works ;Theatre *1745: ''La Fille, la veuve et la femme'', parodie nouvelle des ''Fêtes de Thalie'', ...

moved more and more towards a life in the theatre. With Piis,

Jean-Baptiste Radet Jean-Baptiste Radet (20 January 1752, Dijon - 17 March 1830, Paris) was a French vaudevillist. Prior to the French Revolution, he worked in the library of the duchesse de Villeroy, allowing him to indulge his literary tastes. He had already had ...

and

Desfontaines-Lavallée François-Georges Fouques Deshayes (1733, Caen - 25 November 1825), known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, was a French writer and playwright. Before the French Revolution he worked as a royal censor, secretary and librarian. He coopera ...

, in 1792 he founded 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 ...

(which he headed until 1815, replaced by

Marc-Antoine Désaugiers Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1742 – 10 September 1793) was a French composer of numerous operas as well as a cantata on the storming of the Bastille and several pieces of sacred music. He was born in Fréjus. He studied music there but was largely ...

), then on rue de Chartres-Saint-Honoré. Bonaparte was at first "discontented with his theatre due to anti-Republican allusions which he made every evening"L. de Lanzac de Laborie, ''Paris sous Napoléon-Spectacles et Musées'', Paris, 1913, pp. 152–156 but in 1805 commanded him to go to

Boulogne-sur-Mer Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...

to entertain the officers of the invasion force against England. He died in Paris.

Works

* ''Cassandre'', 1780. * ''Arlequin aficheur''. *'' Mr. Guillaume ou le voyageur inconnu'', 1800. * ''Lantara ou le peintre au cabaret'', 1809

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barre, Pierre-Yves French theatre managers and producers 1749 births 1832 deaths Writers from Paris 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French chansonniers