Eugène Cantiran de Boirie, real name Jean-Bernard-Eugène Cantiran de Boirie, (22 October 1785 – 14 December 1837) was a French

dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwri ...

. Boirie was the son of a chief clerk of the stewardship of Paris, who at the time of the

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, spent the remainder of his fortune buying the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes. Boirie's first

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was produced when he was 20 years old. Unable to write these tragedies he conceived well and combined with a perfect understanding of the scene, he could not do without employees. Among the seventeen authors who were kind enough to work with him, several spirited men achieved many successes in the world of theater. After his father died, Boirie became owner of the Théâtre des jeunes Artistes, but was stripped of his ownership by the imperial decree that abolished many theaters. He then was the dramaturge for four years of the théâtre de l’Impératrice, a position he lost at the time of the

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. In 1822, he became

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of the théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, at t he request of

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. After retiring from the théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Boirie died in a nursing home located in the Saint-Marcel neighborhood of Paris.

Theatre

* ''Storb et Verner, ou Les Suites d'un duel'' (with P.-J.-A. Bonel), drama in 3 acts, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 6 April 1815 : ''La Marquise de Gange, ou Les Trois Frères'' (with

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in 3 acts and in prose, inspired by the Causes Célèbres, théâtre de la Gaité, 18 November 1815 * ''Jean sans peur, duc de Bourgogne, ou le Pont de Montereau'' (with

), melodrama in 3 acts and in prose, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, December 1815 * ''Le Banc de sable, ou les Naufragés français'' (with Frédéric Dupetit-Méré and

), melodrama in 3 acts in prose, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 14 April 1819 * ''Chacun son numéro, ou le Petit Homme gris'',

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in 1 act (with

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), théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 6 December 1821 * ''Le Château de Kenilworth'' (with Henri Lemaire), 3-acts melodrama after

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, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 23 March 1822 * ''Les Deux Forçats, ou la Meunière du Puy-de-Dôme'' (with Carmouche and Alphonse André Véran), melodrama in 3 acts, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 3 October 1822 * ''Les Invalides ou Cent ans de gloire'', tableau militaire in 2 acts (with Jean-Toussaint Merle, Henri Simon and

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 ...

) to celebrate the return of H.R.H. the duke of Angoulême, music by

Louis Alexandre Piccinni Louis Alexandre Piccinni (variously Louis Alexandre, Luigi Alessandro or Lodovice Alessandro) (10 September 1779 – 24 April 1850) was a prolific music composer born in Paris of Italian ancestry. Alexandre Piccinni was born in Paris. The gra ...

, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 15 December 1823 * ''Le Commissionnaire'' (with Ferdinand Laloue and

Constant Ménissier 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. His theatre plays were performed on the most ...

), melodrama in 3 acts, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 10 June 1824 * ''L'Oncle et le neveu, ou les Noms supposés'' (with Pierre Tournemine),

in 1 act, théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 14 February 1826

Sources

*Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne : revue bibliographique universelle, t. 4, Paris, Madame C. Desplaces, 1854, 700 p
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