Pierre-Yves Barré (; 17 April 1749 – 2 May 1832) was a French vaudevillist and songwriter.

Life

Barré was born in Paris. He began life as a lawyer to the French parliament, then court clerk in Pau, but as the nephew of the

chanson A (, ; , ) is generally any Lyrics, lyric-driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval music, medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of ...

nier Pierre Laujon moved more and more towards a life in the theatre. With Piis, Jean-Baptiste Radet and Desfontaines-Lavallée, in 1792 he founded 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 ...

(which he headed until 1815, replaced by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers), then on rue de Chartres-Saint-Honoré. Bonaparte was at first "discontented with his theatre due to anti-Republican allusions which he made every evening"L. de Lanzac de Laborie, ''Paris sous Napoléon-Spectacles et Musées'', Paris, 1913, pp. 152–156 but in 1805 commanded him to go to

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to entertain the officers of the invasion force against England. He died in Paris.

Works

* ''Cassandre'', 1780. * ''Arlequin aficheur''. *'' Mr. Guillaume ou le voyageur inconnu'', 1800. * ''Lantara ou le peintre au cabaret'', 1809

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barre, Pierre-Yves French theatre managers and producers 1749 births 1832 deaths Writers from Paris 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French chansonniers