Charles Ménétrier (born 1804 at
Vimont (
Calvados
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)19 May 1888) was a French theater critic as well as a playwright.
A journalist working for ''
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'Entr'acte'', ''
Le Magasin pittoresque'' and the ''Revue et Gazette des Théâtres'', and a friend of
Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output si ...
,
[Rodolphe Walter, Élisabeth Foucart-Walter, ''Corot à Mantes'', 1997, ] he wrote under the
pen name
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Charles Listener. His
plays were presented on the stage of the
Gymnase-Enfantin.
Works
*1833 : ''Caliban, par deux ermites de Ménilmontant rentrés dans le monde'', with Édouard Pouyat
*1836 : ''Le cœur d'une mère'', one-act
comédie en vaudeville, with
Xavier Veyrat
*1837 : ''Le Nabab, ou la Sœur des anges'', one-act comedy, mingled with songs
*1840 : ''Arthur de Bretagne'', épisode de l'histoire d'Angleterre (1202), in 1 act, mingled with songs
*1841 : ''Un bal d'enfants'', one-act comédie en vaudeville
*1842 : ''Les Enfants d'Armagnac'', épisode de l'histoire de Paris, 1418, in 1 act mingled with songs
*1876 : ''Galerie historique de la Comédie Française pour servir de complément à la Troupe de Talma'', with
Edmond-Denis De Manne
Jean Louis Edmond Saint-Edme De Manne, known under the name Edmond-Denis De Manne, (18 August 1801 in Paris – 6 May 1877 in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright and journalist.
De Manne was a member of the Société des auteurs et compo ...
Bibliography
*
Pierre Larousse
Pierre Athanase Larousse (; 23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume .
Early ...
, ''Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle'' (suppl.), vol.17, 1888
* Georges d'Heylli, ''Dictionnaire des pseudonymes'', 1977, (p. 256)
References
External links
Charls Ménétrieron
Data.bnf.fr
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French theatre critics
People from Calvados (department)
Writers from Normandy
1804 births
1888 deaths
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