Étienne Crétu was an 18th-19th-century French

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. The son of Anthelme Crétu, managing director of the

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 The theatre owed its creation to Mademoiselle Montans ...

who associated him to the direction, his

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were presented in this theatre from 1801 to 1828.

Works

*1785: ''Les Deux gendres'', comedy in five

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and in verse *1799: ''Pygmalion à Saint-Maur'', farce-anecdotique in one act and vaudevilles, with

François Bernard-Valville François Marcellin Bernard-Valville (6 February 1767 – 15 October 1828) was a French playwright and librettist. Biography The son of a lawyer of Clermont, his studies led him to theater, where he played a few years under the name Bernard-Va ...

and

Étienne Gosse Étienne Gosse (Bordeaux, 1773 – Toulon, 21 February 1834) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, chansonnier, and journalist. Short biography In 1793 he volunteered in the army and quickly became an officer and secretary at the arsenal ...

*1801: ''Quel est le plus ridicule ? ou La Gravure en action'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Gosse and

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*1826: ''Le Chiffonnier, ou le Philosophe nocturne'', comédie en vaudevilles in five acts and in one day, 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 of ...

*1826: ''Paris et Bruxelles, ou le Chemin à la mode'', two-act comédie en vaudevilles, with

Jean-Baptiste Gondelier Jean-Baptiste Gondelier (8 December 1792 in Dijon – 31 October 1878) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. Biography An engraver and lithographer at 110 in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, Jean-Baptiste Gondelier received a pat ...

and Théaulon *1826: ''Le Soufflet conjugal'', one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Théaulon *1827: ''Les Compagnons du devoir, ou le Tour de France'', one-act tableau-vaudeville, with W. Lafontaine *1827: ''Le Bénéficiaire'', comedy in five acts and one vaudeville, with Théaulon *1827: ''Jean de Calais'', comedy in two acts, mingled with

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s, 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 he ...

and Louis-Émile Vanderburch *1828: ''L'Oncle en tutelle'', one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Vanderburch 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights {{France-playwright-stub