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Antoine Année
Antoine Année ( Avremesnil in pays de Caux, near Dieppe, 22 August 1770 – Paris, 27 March 1846) was an 18th/19th-century French playwright and journalist. Année embraced early on the cause of freedom, but being in Paris at the times of the 20 June, the 10 August and the September Massacres, misfortunes and events made a deep impression on him, since he never ceased to rise against its excesses. During the reign of Terror, he was in the army, shelter and security asylum for men who did not occupy positions high enough to give rise to desire or arouse the fears of authority. Some months after the , Année returned to Paris and published under the title ''Réhabilitateur'' a magazine devoted to avenge the victims of the Terror. It was still too near the system against which he stood and his newspaper only numbered some twenty issues. The men who had played leading roles were still too powerful for such paper to be published with impunity and Année was forced to abandon it. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avremesnil
Avremesnil () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography A farming village in the valley of the Saâne river, in the Pays de Caux, situated some southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D27 and D2 roads. Heraldry Population Places of interest * The church of St. Aubin, dating from the twelfth century. * The sixteenth century manorhouse. * The motte and other vestiges of the medieval chateau. See also *Communes of the Seine-Maritime department The following is a list of the 707 communes of the French department of Seine-Maritime. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References External links The official websit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, Piis and Yves Barré, Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including Comédie en vaudeville, vaudevilles. After the theatre on the rue de Chartres burned down in 1838, the Vaudeville temporarily based itself on boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle before in 1841 setting up in the Salle de la Bourse on the Place de la Palais Brongniart, Bourse in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, 2e arrondissement. This building was demolished in 1869. Eugène Labiche and Henri Meilhac put on several of their works there, and it also hosted Jules Verne's play ''Onze jours de siège'' (1861). Other writers whose works were put on there were Edmond Gondinet, Alexandre Bisson, Théophile Marion Dumersan, Jean-François Bayard, Narcisse Fournier and Gaston Arman de Caillavet. In 1852, ''La Dame aux camél ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Normandy
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French Literary Critics
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19th-century French Journalists
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Antoine Jay
Antoine Jay (20 October 1770, Guîtres – 9 April 1854, Courgeac) was a French writer, journalist, historian and politician. Biography At first an Oratorian at Niort, he studied law at Toulouse then became a lawyer, then briefly worked as the administrator of the district of Libourne. He travelled to Canada and the United States between 1795 and 1802 to escape the French Revolution, making friends with Thomas Jefferson and teaching French to Lemuel Shaw. From 1803 to 1809, he was tutor to the sons of Joseph Fouché, before serving as a civil servant in the Ministry of Police, where he translated English newspapers. He contributed to the ''Journal des Voyages'' and ''L'Abeille'', participated in the foundation of '' Constitutionnel'' and '' La Minerve française'', and edited the ''Journal de Paris''. He was an influential opposition journalist, who had supported the French Revolution and First French Empire (serving as a deputy in the Chambre of the Hundred Days and favourin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine-Vincent Arnault
Antoine-Vincent, chevalier Arnault (1 January 176616 September 1834) was a French playwright. Life Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, ''Marius à Minturne'' (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second republican tragedy, ''Lucrèce''. Arnault left France during the Reign of Terror, but on his return, he was arrested by the revolutionary authorities. He was freed through the intervention of Fabre d'Églantine and others. He was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797 with the organization of the French rule in the Ionian Islands (1797–1799), French rule in the Ionian Islands, and was nominated to the Institute and made secretary general of the university. Elected to the Académie Française in 1803, he's excluded from it by ordinance in 1816, after the monarchy was restored, and reelected in 1829. Arnault was faithful to his patron through his misfortunes, and after the Hundred Days remained in exile until 1819. Arnault d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Louvois
The Théâtre Louvois () or Salle Louvois () was a theatre located at what is today 8 rue de Louvois in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Inaugurated in 1791 and closed in 1825, it was used by the Théâtre-Italien from 20 March 1819 to 8 November 1825. Gioachino Rossini became Director of Music on 1 December 1824. History * 1791–1794: building by Francescal on plans by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart; inauguration on 16 August; known as the Théâtre de Louvois or Théâtre de la rue de Louvois up to January 1794, under the direction of Michel-André DelomelWild 1989, . * 1794–1796: known as the Théâtre des Amis de la Patrie from 13 January 1794 to December 1796 * 1796: direction Mlle Raucourt, as the Théâtre Français de la rue de Louvois' from 25 December 1796 to 10 September 1797 * 1798: direction César Ribié, as the Théâtre d'Émulation from 17 April to 31 December * 1799: used by the players of the Théâtre de l'Odéon from 20 March to 12 April, under the dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opéra-Comique
The Opéra-Comique () is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular Théâtre de la foire, theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne (theatre), Hôtel de Bourgogne. It was also called the Théâtre-Italien up to about 1793, when it again became most commonly known as the Opéra-Comique. Today the company's official name is Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, and its theatre, with a capacity of around 1,248 seats, sometimes referred to as the Salle Favart (the third on this site), is located at Place Boïeldieu in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, not far from the Palais Garnier, one of the theatres of the Paris Opéra. The musicians and others associated with the Opéra-Comique have made important contributions to operatic history and tradition in France and to French opera. Its current mission is to reconnect with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Pougin
Arthur Pougin ( 6 August 1834 – 8 August 1921) was a French musical and dramatic critic and writer. He was born at Châteauroux (Indre) and studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris under Alard (violin) and Reber (harmony). In 1855 he became conductor at the Théâtre Beaumarchais, and afterward leader at Musard's concerts, subconductor at the Folies-Nouvelles, and from 1860 to 1863 he was first violin at the Opéra-Comique. He was in turn '' feuilletoniste'' to ''Le Soir'', ''La Tribune () is a French weekly financial newspaper founded in 1985 by Bruno Bertez. Its main competitor is the French newspaper '' Les Échos'', which is currently owned by LVMH. From 1993 to 2007, was part of LVMH. In 2010, Alain Weill, the chair ...'', '' L'Événement'' and '' Le Journal Officiel'', besides being a frequent contributor to all the important French musical periodicals. His work in connection with Fétis's '' Biographie universelle'', for which he prepared a supplement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
