Jean-Constant Menissier (1793 in Paris – 12 October 1878Édouard Noël, Edmond Stoullig, ''Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique'', vol.4, 1879, (p. 637)) 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 ...

. His theatre plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century, including Théâtre du Gymnase, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Théâtre des Célestins and

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

*1813: ''Les deux ermites ou La confidence'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, imitated from

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*1813: ''Le Château d'If'', comedy in 1 act and with vaudevilles *1819: ''La créole'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Delestre-Poirson *1819: ''Douvres et Calais, ou Partie et revanche'', comédie en vaudeville in 2 acts, 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 ...

, *1820: ''Caroline'', comédie en vaudeville in one act, with

Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of man ...

*1820: ''Les Folies du jour'', extravaganza in 1 act, in vaudevilles, with A. Martin and Théaulon *1821: ''Le Château de Chambord'', hommage in 1 act and in vaudevilles *1821: ''Les Suites d'un bienfait'', with Martial Aubertin and Alexandre Martin *1822: ''La diligence attaquée, ou L'auberge des Cévennes'', with

Ferdinand Laloue Ferdinand Laloue (1794 in Passy – 27 September 1850) was a French dramatist, librettist and theatre producer. Administrator of the Théâtre du Cirque-Olympique, he also was director of the Hippodrome and the théâtre des Délassements comique ...

and Ernest Renaud *1822: ''La Fille à marier ou La Double éducation'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Laloue and

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*1822: ''Un mois après la noce, ou le Mariage par intérêt'', comédie en vaudeville en 1 act, with E. Renaud *1822: ''Le Petit Don Quichotte'', proverbe by Carmontelle arranged in vaudeville *1823: ''Les deux fermiers, ou la Forêt de Saint-Vallier'',

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in 3 acts

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 ...

, with

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*1823: ''L'Antichambre d'un médecin'', scènes épisodiques mingled with

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 *1823: ''Les deux forçats'', folie in one act, with Laloue and Renaud *1823: ''Les deux sergens'', pièce anecdotique in 1 act, with A. Martin *1823: ''Les Trois Trilby'', folie in 1 act and in prose, with A. Martin and E. Renaud *1823: ''Le Précepteur dans l'embarras'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act *1823: ''La Maison incendiée, ou les Enfants du charbonnier'', mélodrame anecdotique in 1 act, with E. Renaud *1823: ''Le Roulier'', mimodrame in 3 acts, with Laloue and A. de saint-Hilaire *1824: ''Le commissionnaire'', melodrama en 3 acts, with Eugène Cantiran de Boirie and Ferdinand Laloue *1824: ''Le Passeport'', comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with E. Renaud *1824: ''Le Colonel de hussards'', melodrama in 3 acts, extravaganza *1828: ''Les Frères d'armes, ou la Parole d'honneur'', tableau anecdotique in 1 act and in vaudeville extravaganza, with A. Martin *1829: ''L'illusion'', drame lyrique in 1 act, with Henri de Saint-Georges *1831: ''L'Abbé de L'Épée, ou le Muet de Toulouse'', historical play in 2 periods and in 9 tableaux, mingled with singing *1831: ''Une première faute'', drama mingled with songs in 4 acts and in 7 tableaux *1832: ''Brune et blonde'', tableau in 1 act, mingled with songs *1832: ''Les Fils du rempailleur'', comedy in 2 acts, mingled with

s *1832: ''Le Livre vert ou Esprit et jugement'', Vaudeville-féerie in 4 acts and 7 tableaux, with Paul Duport *1833: ''L'Enseigne, ou la Destinée'', drama mingled with singing, in 3 acts and 6 tableaux, followed with an epilogue, from ''Contes de l'atelier'', by Michel Masson *1834: ''L'Exposition de 1834'', revue commerciale in 1 act, mingled with couplets *1834: ''Hénin, ou le Pêcheur de Boulogne'', historical fact in 1 act, mingled with songs *1835: ''Un roi en vacances'', comédie en vaudeville en 3 acts and 6 tableaux, with

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*1835: ''Le Coin du feu'', play in 4 acts and 7 tableaux, mingled with songs *1836: ''Le Dahlia magique, ou le Nain bleu'', pièce féerie in 4 acts and 11 tableaux, preceded by a prologue *1838: ''Le bourgeois de Reims'',

opera comique The Opera Comique was a 19th-century theatre constructed in Westminster, London, located between Wych Street, Holywell Street and the Strand. It opened in 1870 and was demolished in 1902, to make way for the construction of the Aldwych and K ...

in one act, with Henri de Saint-Georges *1838: ''Une journée aux Champs-Élysées'', tableau in one act, with H. de Saint-Georges and Léon Rabbe *1840: ''Le Marché des Innocetns, ou l'Inconnu'', drama in 4 acts *1844: ''Les Trois amis'', drama in 3 acts

Bibliography

* Jean Marie Querard, ''Les supercheries litteraires devoilees. Galerie des auteurs apocryphes'', 1853, (p. 290)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Menissier, Constant 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 1793 births 1878 deaths