Étienne Jourdan (? –

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, 9 March 1847), was a 19th-century French

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

, engraver and

chansonnier A chansonnier (, , Galician and , or ''canzoniéro'', ) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally " song-books"; however, some manuscripts are call ...

. An engraver, member of the , he wrote some theatre plays given at the

Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique The (, literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet. It was rebuilt in 1770 and 1786, but in 1827 was destroyed by fire. A ...

, 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, Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis, Piis and Yves Barré, Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets s ...

and the Théâtre de la Gaîté as well as a collection of songs of which the best known is
La Goguette
'. Some of his

couplet In poetry, a couplet ( ) or distich ( ) is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there ...

s, published in the Paris press, were famous political diatribes.''Dictionnaire des Protées modernes'', 1815, (p. 147)

Works

*1813: ''Le Boghey renversé, ou Un point de vue de Longchamp'', croquis en 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 of ...

and

Armand d'Artois Armand d'Artois (3 October 1788 – 28 March 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque ...

*1814: ''La cocarde blanche'', one-act comedy in prose *1834: ''Artiste et artisan, ou les Deux expositions'', one-act comédie-vaudeville, with Ferdinand de Laboullaye *1836: ''Le Barde'', collection of songs *1836: ''L'Ouverture sans prologue'', prologue d'ouverture in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with de Laboullaye

References

Bibliography

Joseph Marie Quérard, Félix Bourquelot, Charles Louandre, ''La littérature française contemporaine. XIXe''
1852, (p. 426) {{DEFAULTSORT:Jourdan, Etienne 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French engravers 19th-century French male artists French chansonniers Year of birth missing 1847 deaths