Alexandre Leblanc de Ferrière, (18 October 1771,

Bar-sur-Seine Bar-sur-Seine (, literally ''Bar on Seine'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Aube Departments of France, department in the Grand Est region of north-central France. In the middle ages it constituted the Châtellenie de Bar-sur-Seine (). ...

– 23 February 1848), was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, journalist, printer, publisher and writer.

Biography

The printer and director of ''L'Arlequin, journal de pièces et de morceaux'' (1799), a journalist by the daily ''Le Monde'' (1796-1798), the head of the statistical bureau of the Interior ministry (1803), responsible for the ''Annales de statistique française et étrangère'' (1803-1804) and the ''Archives statistiques de la France'' (1804-1805), an editor for the ''Analyse de la statistique générale de la France'' published by the French Interior ministry (1803-1804), he wrote an ''Annuaire de Paris et des environs'', published in 1838. His theatre plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 18th and 19th centuries, including the Théâtre de l'Ambigu, the Théâtre de la Gaîté, the Théâtre Le Temple, and 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 ...

Works

*1776: ''Les Souliers mordorés ou la Cordonnière allemande'',

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 Théâtre de la foire, Fair Theatres of St Germain and S ...

in 2 acts *1797: ''Arlequin-décorateur'', comédie-parade in 1 act and in prose, mingled with vaudevilles, with Nicolas Gersin and Antoine Année *1803 – 1804: ''Analyse de la statistique générale de la France'' *1805: ''Holkar et Palamys, ou Les Anglais dans l'Indoustan'' *1806: ''Un voyage à Versailles'', 2 vols. *1806: ''Ester'', with Philippe-Aristide-Louis-Pierre Plancher de Valcour *1807: ''Un Conte des mille et une nuits'', opéra comique in 1 act, music by

Charles-Henri Plantade Charles-Henri Plantade (14 October 1764 – 18 December 1839) was a French classical composer and singing professor. His compositions included several operas, numerous Romance (music), romances, sacred music, and a sonata for harp. He taught singi ...

*1810: ''Grotius, ou le Fort de Loevesteen'' *1811: ''Charlemagne, ou les Grands jours de l'Empire français'' *1811: ''Favart à Bruxelles'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act *1812: ''Amour et loyauté, ou le Mariage militaire'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with

couplets 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 ...

, with Richard Fabert *1812: ''Arlequin-Lucifer, ou Cassandre alchimiste'', folie in 1 act mingled with couplets, with Fabert *1813: ''Archambaud ou Amour et devoir'',

melodrama A melodrama is a Drama, dramatic work in which plot, typically sensationalized for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodrama is "an exaggerated version of drama". Melodramas typically concentrate on ...

in 3 acts *1813: ''La Coutume écossaise ou Le Mariage sur la frontière'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Charles Rondeau *1814: ''Les Trois talismans'', melodrama in 3 acts and

extravaganza An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of Victorian burlesque, and pantomime, in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure. The term is derived from th ...

*1816: ''Éléonore de Lusignan'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Jean Edme Paccard *1816: ''Marguerite de Strafford, ou le Retour à la royauté'', melodrama in 3 acts, in prose and extravaganza, with Desprez *1816: ''Le Mariage sous d'heureux auspices'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Desprez *1816: ''Opinion sur le divorce considéré sous le rapport de la religion et des mœurs'' *1817: ''Inès, ou les Devoirs d'un roi'', melodrama in 3 acts and extravaganza *1817: ''Hassem, ou la vengeance'', melodrama in 3 acts *1818: ''Les Deux ambitions'' *1818: ''L'Incendie du village, ou les Représailles militaires'', melodrama in 3 acts, extravaganza, with Jean-Baptiste Dubois *1819: ''Grégoire à Tunis, ou les Bons effets du vin'', vaudeville in 1 act, with

Aimé Desprez Claude-Aimé Desprez-Saint-Clair (5 April 1783 – 26 April 1824) was a French vaudeville playwright and chansonnier. He himself performed comedy plays and, around 1810, joined the troupe of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique under the name Saint ...

*1822: ''L'Actrice en voyage'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Carron de Morcourt and Gaspard Tourret *1822: ''Les Deux baillis, ou le Mariage par procuration'', comedy in 1 act, in prose *1825: ''La Fille du musicien'', drama in 3 acts, with Edmond Crosnier *1825: ''La Comtesse de Tarascon, ou Dix années d'absence, anecdote du XIIIe siècle'' *1831: ''L'Hôtel des princes'', opéra comique in 1 act, music by Eugène Prévost *1834: ''Jane Gray'', drama in 3 acts and 5 tableaux, music by François Bellon, preceded with ''6 juillet 1553'',

prologue A prologue or prolog (from Ancient Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier st ...

in 1 act *1837: ''Annuaire de Paris et de ses environs dans un rayon de dix lieues'' *1838: ''Les Étouffeurs'', drama in 2 acts, with Charles Foliguet *1838: ''Paris et ses environs, description historique, statistique et monumentale'' *1842: ''Lequel ?'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Louis Berthier and Pierre Tournemine *1845: ''Introduction à l'étude philosophique de la phrénologie''

Bibliography

* Joseph Marie Quérard, ''La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants'', 1829, (p. 114) * Jean-Dominique Mellot et Élisabeth Queval, avec la collaboration d'Antoine Monaque, ''Répertoire d'imprimeurs-libraires (c. 1500 – c. 1810)'', Service de l'Inventaire rétrospectif des fonds imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2004.

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