Pierre Adolphe Capelle (4 November 1775 – 4 October 1851) was a 19th-century French

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 ...

, goguettier and

writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p ...

Works

First a chansonnier, he also composed many comédies en vaudeville as well as texts of circumstances : *1797: ''Bébée et Jargon'', one-act rhapsody, 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 *1801–1802: ''Âneries révolutionnaires, ou Balourdisiana, bêtisiana, etc. etc. ect'' *1813: ''Elle et lui'', one-act comedy mingled with vaudevilles, with Théaulon *1814: ''La Vieillesse de Fontenelle'', one-act comédie-anecdote, with

Henri-François Dumolard Henri-François Élisabeth Étienne Dumolard-Orcel, better known as Henri-François Dumolard (2 October 1771 – 21 December 1845) was an early 19th-century French playwright. The son of a judge, he lost his father aged fifteen and in order to ...

*1816: ''Gascon et Normand, ou les Deux soubrettes'', one-act comedy, mingled with vaudevilles, with

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 ...

*1816: ''La journée aux aventures'', three-act

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 ...

, in prose *1817: ''Les deux Gaspard'', one-act comédie en vaudeville *1817: ''La Fête de la reconnaissance'', impromptu in vaudevilles, 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 ...

*1818: ''Encore une folie ou La veille du mariage'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with

Gabriel de Lurieu Gabriel de Lurieu (real name Gabriel-Zéphirin Gonyn de Lurieu; Paris, 28 October 1799 (7 brumaire year VIII) – Paris, 5 February 1889 ) was a French author and playwright. His brother Jules-Joseph-Gabriel de Lurieu (1792–1869), with whom ...

*1818: ''Contes, anecdotes, chansons et poésies diverses'' *1811: ''La Clef du Caveau'' *1820: ''L'Autre Henri, ou l'An 1880, comedy in 3 acts, in prose'', with Théaulon and

Fulgence de Bury Fulgence de Bury, real name: Joseph Désiré Fulgence de Bury (1 March 1785 – 23 June 1845) was a 19th-century French playwright. A civil servant in the administration, he became known under the pen name Fulgence. His theatre plays were presen ...

*1820: ''L'Ermite de Saint-Avelle, ou le Berceau mystérieux'', one-act vaudeville, with Théaulon *1822: ''Chanson de la berceuse du duc de Bordeaux'' *1824: ''Dictionnaire de morale, de science et de littérature, ou Choix de pensées ingénieuses et sublimes, de dissertations et de définitions'' *1824: ''Le Tambour de Logrono, ou Jeunesse et valeur'', one-act historical tableau, mingled with couplets, with

Paul Auguste Gombault Paul Auguste Gombault (21 January 1786 in Orléans – 1853) was a 19th-century French playwright. His plays were presented at the Théâtre Comte, the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques and the Théâtre de la Gaîté. Works *1806: ''La Rev ...

*1826: ''Manuel de la typographie française'' *1826: ''La Veuve de quinze ans'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Théaulon * ''Chansonnier des Muses'' *1834: ''Abrégé de l'histoire de Paris'' *1850: ''L'Amitié, discours en vers libres'' *undated: ''Le 6 juin 1825. Rentrée de Charles X dans sa capitale après la cérémonie du sacre'' *undated: ''A-Propos sur le rétablissement du trône des Bourbons en France'' *undated: ''Couplets adressés par un grenadier de la Grande Armée à ses camarades'' *undated: ''Discours de Jérôme Farine, membre honoraire de la Société des forts de la Halle, à ses camarades et aux bouquetières de la rue aux Fers, réunis à la Courtille'' *undated: ''Ma profession de foi épicurienne, ronde de table'' *undated: ''Physiologie de la noce, ou C'est toujours la même chanson'' *undated: ''Tout roule dans ce monde''

Bibliography

* Claude Duneton, Emmanuelle Bigot, ''Histoire de la chanson française: De 1780 à 1860'', 1998, , 273 * Paul Mironneau, ''Chansonnier Henri IV'', 1999

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Capelle, Pierre French booksellers 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French chansonniers 1775 births People from Montauban 1851 deaths