Arsène de Cey (real name François-Arsène Chaise de Cahagne; 2 March 1806 – 20 November 1887) was a 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 ...

and

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

. A civil servant at the Ministry of Public Works (1858), his plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique,

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 ...

, Théâtre de la Gaîté etc.

Works

Novels

*1833 : ''La Fille du curé'', roman de mœurs *1833 : ''Jean le bon apôtre'', roman de mœurs *1835 : ''Sagesse, ou la Vie d'étudiant'', roman, 4 vols. *1836 : ''La Jolie Fille de Paris'', 4 vols. *1836 : ''Le Premier Pas'', roman

Theatre

*1837 : ''Vingt ans après'', comedy in 1 act, mixed with distincts, with

Paul Duport Nicolas-Paul Duport (22 April 1798 – 26 December 1866) was a French dramatist and librettiste who also wrote under the pen names M. P. D., Paulin and Erbert. Theatre * 1824 : ''Le Beau-frère, ou la Veuve à 2 maris'', comédie-vaudeville in ...

*1842 : ''Quand on n'a rien à faire'', comedy-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Lockroy *1848 : ''Le Grand-papa Guérin'', comedy-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Laurencin Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. Biography Laurencin was born in Paris ...

*1840 : ''Les Caprices'', comedy-vaudeville en 1 act, with Léon Halévy *1848 : ''La Fiancée du prince'', comedy-vaudeville in 3 acts, with Antonin d'Avrecourt and Ernest-Georges Petitjean *1848 : ''Monsieur le duc et Madame la duchesse'', comedy-vaudeville in 2 acts *1850 : ''Le Mari d'une Camargo'', comedy-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Laurencin *1852 : ''L'Ami du roi de Prusse'', vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Charles Varin Charles Voirin, called Varin, (20 January 1798 (1er pluviôse an VI) – 24 April 1869) was a 19th-century French playwright. He also wrote under the pen names V. Warin and Victor. Biography Destined by his father to the profession of nota ...

*1854 : ''Quand on n'a pas le sou...'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Gustave Harmant

Bibliography

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 contemporains'', 1858,
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* Joseph Marie Quérard, Gustave Brunet, Pierre Jannet, ''Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées: A-E'', 1869, (p. 684) * ''La Grande encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts: par une société de savants et de gens de lettres'', vol.10, 1886, (p. 175) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cey, Arsene 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French novelists People from Thiers 1806 births 1887 deaths