Jean-Marie-Théodore Baudouin also d’Aubigny, born in

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19 August 1786 - died 1866, was a French

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Theatre

* ''La Pie voleuse'', a

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in collaboration with Louis-Charles Caigniez, based on an authentic event. Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 29 April 1815. The play later served as the base for the 1817 opera ''

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'' by

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. * ''Le Barbier de la cité ou Un pied dans l'abîme'',

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in 3 acts and in prose,

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s by Frédéric-Auguste Blache, music by Louis Alexandre Piccinni, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 22 August 1816; * ''Les Paratonnerres ou les Bulles de savon'',

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in 1 act and in prose, with Boirie, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 21 November 1821; * ''Chacun son numéro ou le Petit Homme gris'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Carmouche and Boirie, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 6 December 1821; * ''Le Lépreux de la vallée d'Aoste'',

in 3 acts, with Hyacinthe Decomberousse and Jean-Toussaint Merle, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 13 August 1822; * '' Les Deux Sergents'', melodrama in 3 acts, with Auguste Maillard, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 20 February 1823; * ''L'Agent de change ou Une fin de mois'', drama in 3 acts imitated from

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, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and Maurice Alhoy, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 1825.

Sources

* Pierre Marie Michel Lepeintre Desroches, ''Suite du Répertoire du Théâtre Français : comédies en prose I-XVIII'', t. 47, Paris, Veuve Dabo, 1823, {(p. 137-138). 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights Writers from Paris 1786 births 1866 deaths {{France-playwright-stub