Pierre Carmouche (9 April 1797 - 9 December 1868) was a French playwright and chansonnier. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies, comédies en vaudevilles and texts for opéras comiques, in collaboration with diverse authors -

Brazier A brazier () is a container used to burn charcoal or other solid fuel for cooking, heating or cultural rituals. It often takes the form of a metal box or bowl with feet. Its elevation helps circulate air, feeding oxygen to the fire. Braziers ...

, Dumersan,

Mélesville Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, pen-name Mélesville (13 December 1787 in Paris – 7 November 1865 in Marly-le-Roi) was a French dramatist. The playwright Mélesville fils was his son. Life The son of Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier, M� ...

, de Courcy, etc. In 1824 he married the actress

Jenny Vertpré Jenny Vertpré, real name Françoise Fanny Vausgien, (6 September 1797 – 3 November 1865) was a 19th-century French stage actress. Still a child, she performed under the name Jenny at the Théâtre du Vaudeville then became a leading actress of ...

. He also collected a rich library, bequeathed in part to marshal Canrobert.

Theatre

* ''Les Poissons d'avril, ou le Charivari'', comédie en vaudevilles, with Émile Cottenet, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 1 April 1816. * ''Le Bateau à vapeur'', comedy in one act, mingled with couplets, with Émile Cottenet, Philibert Rozet, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 1816. * ''L'Heureuse Moisson, ou le Spéculateur en défaut'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act mingled with couplets, with

Jean-Toussaint Merle Jean-Toussaint Merle (10 June 1785– 27 February 1852) was a French playwright and journalist. Biography Merle had a good education at the Central School of the department of Hérault before arriving in Paris in 1803. At first an employee at ...

and Frédéric de Courcy, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, September 1817. * ''La Cloyère d'huitres, ou les Deux Briquebec'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Frédéric de Courcy and Jean-Toussaint Merle, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 25 January 1820 * ''La Petite Corisandre'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Henri Dupin and Frédéric de Courcy, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 11 October 1820. * ''Chacun son numéro, ou le Petit Homme gris'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with

Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny Jean-Marie-Théodore Baudouin also d’Aubigny, born in Paris 19 August 1786 - died 1866, was a French playwright. Theatre * ''La Pie voleuse'', a play in collaboration with Louis-Charles Caigniez, based on an authentic event. Théâtre de la ...

and Boirie, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 6 December 1821. * ''Le Coq de village'', tableau vaudeville by

Charles-Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart (13 November 1710 – 12 May 1792) was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him. Biography Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, a ...

with changes from Carmouche and Frédéric de Courcy, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 16 July 1822. * ''La Réconciliation, ou la Veille de la Saint-Louis'', tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with Frédéric de Courcy and

Ferdinand Laloue Ferdinand Laloue (1794 in Passy – 27 September 1850) was a French dramatist, librettist and theatre producer. Administrator of the Théâtre du Cirque-Olympique, he also was director of the Hippodrome and the théâtre des Délassements comiques ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 23 August 1822. * ''Le Grenadier de Fanchon'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 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 ...

and

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 ...

Théâtre des Variétés The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle ...

, 13 December 1824. * ''In vino veritas'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Saint-Ange Martin and Frédéric de Courcy, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 24 April 1825. * ''Les Filets de Vulcain ou le Lendemain d'un succès'', foly-vaudeville en 1 act, with

Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle, (15 September 1794 – 1 July 1863) was a French lawyer, journalist, dramatist and theatre director. Jouslin de La Salle was administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1832 to 1837, and then of the théâ ...

and Dupin, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 15 July 1826. * ''Cinq heures du soir, ou le Duel manqué'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with

and

, Théâtre des Variétés, 4 September 1827. * ''Le Mariage impossible'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Mélesville, Théâtre des Variétés, 1828. * ''Le puff.'' Comédie en vaudevilles in 3 tableaux, with Varin and Louis Huart, 1838. * ''Deux-Ânes'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Mélesville, Théâtre du Palais Royal, 1842.

Sources

Louis Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 381

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carmouche, Pierre 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French male writers French opera librettists French chansonniers Writers from Lyon 1797 births 1868 deaths French male dramatists and playwrights