Théodore Barrière (1823 – 16 October 1877),
French playwright
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Readin ...
, was born in
Paris
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.
He belonged to a family of map engravers which had long been connected with the war department, and spent nine years in that service himself. The success of a
vaudeville
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he had performed at the
Beaumarchais and which was immediately snapped up for the repertory of the
Palais Royal, showed him his real vocation. During the next thirty years he signed, alone or in collaboration, over a hundred plays; among the most successful were:
*''La Vie de bohème'' (1849), adapted from
Henri Murger’s book with the novelist's help
*''Manon Lescaut'' (1851)
*''Les Filles de marbre'' (1853) (subsequently adapted into English as ''The Marble Heart'' by
Charles Selby)
[(27 May 1854)]
Dramatic - Adelphi
''The Musical World'', Vol. 32, No. 21, p. 352
*''Les Faux Bonshommes'' (1856) with
Ernest Capendu
*''L’Héritage de Monsieur Plumet'' (1858)
*''Les Gens nerveux'' (1860), with
Victorien Sardou
*''Malheureux vaincus'' (1865), which was forbidden by the censor
*''Le Gascon'' (1873), with Louis Davyl, incidental music by
Vizentini and
Offenbach
Barrière died in Paris.
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1823 births
1877 deaths
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Writers from Paris