Théodore César Muret (24 January 1808 – 23 July 1866) was a 19th-century French playwright,

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, essayist and historian.

Biography

Born into a Protestant family expelled from France after the

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, he began studying law in Rouen, which he finished in

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. A lawyer then a political and theater journalist with ''La Mode'' (1831–1834), ''La Quotidienne'', ''L'Opinion publique'' (1848–1849) and also ''L'Union'',Jean Touchard, ''La gloire de Béranger'', 1968, (p. 383) his

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were given on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the

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, the

Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques The Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques () was a theatre in Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries. Opened first in 1832 in the site of the old Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple, under Frédérick Lemaître it became a noted ...

, the

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, and the Théâtre de l'Odéon. A

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, he was twice imprisoned for his opinions, in 1842 and 1845.

Works

Theatre

*1829: ''Corneille à Rouen'', comedy in 2 acts *1831: ''Le docteur de Saint Brice'', drama in 2 acts, with the

Cogniard brothers The Cogniard brothers were two French brothers who worked as playwrights and theatre directors, producing an incalculable number of vaudevilles, reviews, féeries and operettas. The elder of the two was Charles-Théodore or Théodore Cogniard (30 A ...

*1831: ''Paul Ier'', historical drama en 3 actes et en prose, with the Cogniard brothers *1835: ''Le Tasse à l'hôpital Sainte-Anne, scène historique (1580)'' *1837: ''Les droits de la femme'', comedy in 1 act *1837: ''Pour ma mère !'', drame-vaudeville in 1 act, with the Cogniard brothers *1837: ''Pretty, ou Seule au monde !'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with song, with de Courcy *1837: ''Le Cousin du Pérou'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Michel Delaporte and Lubize *1838: ''Les coulisses'', tableau-vaudeville in 2 acts *1838: ''Juana ou Deux dévouements'', drama in 1 act, mingled with *1838: ''Le Médecin de campagne'', comédie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Frédéric de Courcy Frédéric de Courcy, born Frédéric Charlot de CourcyThus he is not part of the Norman Courcy family, contrary to his entry in ''Dictionnaire de biographie française'' (16 August 1796, Paris – 6 May 1862, Paris) was a French dramatist, poet a ...

and

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 ...

*1839: ''Les bamboches de l'année'',

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mingled with

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s *1840: ''Le Docteur de Saint-Brice'', drama in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with the Cogniard frères *1840: ''L'Élève de Presbourg'',

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in 1 act *1840: ''Une journée chez Mazarin'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with couplets, with

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and

Alexis Decomberousse Alexis Decomberousse, full name Alexis Barbe Benoît Decomberousse, (13 January 1793 – 22 November 1862) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevillist. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th centur ...

*1841: ''1841 et 1941, ou Aujourd'hui et dans cent ans'', revue fantastique in 2 acts, with the Cogniard brothers *1841: ''Une vocation'', comedy in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with de Courcy *1842: ''Mil huit cent quarante et un et mil neuf cent quarante et un...'', revue fantastique, with the Cogniard brothers *1842: ''Les Philanthropes'', comedy in 3 acts, in verse, with de Courcy *1844: ''Les Iles Marquises'', revue of the year 1843, in 2 acts, with the Cogniard brothers *1846: ''Si j'étais homme ou les canotiers de Paris'', comédie vaudeville in 2 acts, with

Laurencin Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. Biography Laurencin was born in Paris ...

*1848: ''Les Marrons d'Inde, ou les Grotesques de l'année'', revue fantastique in 3 acts and 8 tableaux, with the Cogniard brothers *1851: ''La Course au plaisir'', revue of 1851, in 2 acts and 3 tableaux, with Michel Delaporte and

Gaston de Montheau Gaston de Montheau, full name Guy Joseph Gaston de Montheau, (19 January 1828 – 16 February 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright and poet. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of the 19th century including th ...

*1856: ''Michel Cervantès'', drama in 5 acts, in verse *1859: ''Les Dettes'', comedy in 3 acts, in verse

History

*1833: ''Jacques le Chouan : Madame en Vendée'' *1834: ''Le Chevalier de Saint-Pont (histoire de 1784)'' *1836: ''Gresset (Jean-Baptiste-Louis)'' *1836: ''Mademoiselle de Montpensier, histoire du temps de la Fronde (1652)'' *1837: ''Histoire de Paris depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours'' *1837–1838: ''Les Grands hommes de la France'', 2 vol. *1839: ''Souvenirs de l'Ouest'' *1840: ''Vie populaire de Henri de France'' *1842: ''La Vie et la mort du duc d'Orléans, prince royal'' *1843: ''Le Grand convoi de la ville de Rouen'' *1844: ''Voyage et séjour de Henri de France dans la Grande-Bretagne, octobre 1843-janvier 1844'' *1844: ''Histoire de l'armée de Condé'', 2 vol. *1845: ''Vie populaire de Bonchamps'' *1845: ''Vie populaire de Cathelineau'' *1845: ''Vie populaire de Charette'' *1845: ''Vie populaire de Georges Cadoudal'' *1845: ''Vie populaire de Henri de La Rochejaquelein'' *1846: ''Mariage de Henri de France, relation populaire'' *1848: ''Histoire des guerres de l'Ouest : Vendée, chouannerie (1792-1815)'' *1849: ''Vie de Henri de France'', abrégé *1850: ''Les Ravageurs'' *1850: ''Album de l'exil'' *1853: ''Histoire de Henri Arnaud, pasteur et chef militaire des Vaudois du Piémont, résumé de l'histoire vaudoise'' *1854: ''Les Galériens protestants'' *1860: ''Italie. Au roi Victor-Emmanuel, au comte de Cavour, au général Garibaldi'' *1861: ''Histoire de Jeanne d'Albret, reine de Navarre'', preceded by a ''Étude sur Marguerite de Valois, sa mère'' *1865: ''L'Histoire par le théâtre, 1789-1851'', 3 vol.

Essais

*1835: ''Georges, ou Un entre mille'' *1842: ''Simples questions d'un ignorant au sujet des chemins de fer en général, et du chemin de fer de Paris à Rouen et au Havre en particulier'' *1843: ''Le Drapeau anglais'' *1849: ''La Vérité aux ouvriers, aux paysans, aux soldats, simples paroles'' *1849: ''Casse-cou ! socialisme, impérialisme, orléanisme'' *1850: ''Démocratie blanche'' *1851: ''Le Bon messager'', almanach pour l'an de grâce 1842 *1855: ''Paroles d'un protestant'' *1858: ''A travers champs, souvenirs et propos divers'' *1861: ''Le Théâtre-français de la rue de Richelieu'', histoire théâtrale

Poetry

*undated: ''A propos d'un chien'' *undated: ''Le nez rouge'' *1847: ''Comment on dégénère'' *1852: ''Paris à Dieppe'', speech in verse

Novel

*1845: ''Une histoire de voleur''

Bibliography

Charles Dezobry Louis Charles Dezobry (4 March 1798 – 16 August 1871) was a 19th-century French historian and historical novelist, born at St-Denis. Works * ''Rome au siècle d'Auguste, ou Voyage d'un Gaulois à Rome à l'époque du règne d'Auguste et ...

Théodore Bachelet Jean-Louis-Théodore Bachelet (15 January 1820 – 26 September 1879) was a 19th-century French historian and musicologist. Biography After studying at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen and the Lycée Hoche in Versailles, he entered the Éc ...

, ''Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire'', 1869, (p. 2961) *

Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography ...

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* Jules Gay, ''Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes...'', 1872, (p. 148–149) * George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, ''The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary'', 1875, (p. 54) *

Ludovic Lalanne Ludovic Lalanne (23 April 1815, Paris – 16 May 1898, Paris) was a French historian and librarian. The engineer and politician Léon Lalanne (1811–1892) was his brother. Biography Lalanne was a student at the lycée Louis-le-Grand and late ...

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Pierre Larousse Pierre Athanase Larousse (; 23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume . Early ...

Claude Augé Claude Augé (; 31 October 1854 – 22 July 1924) was a French pedagogue, publisher, and lexicographer. Biography First a school master, he married a grand niece of Pierre Larousse's wife, joined the Librairie Larousse as bookkeeper in 1885 an ...

, ''Nouveau Larousse illustré: dictionnaire universel'', 1898, (p. 269) * Pierre Henri Guignard, ''Les servitudes foncières dans le Code civil vaudois'', 1975, (p. 16) * Edmond Biré, ''La presse royaliste de 1830 à 1852'', 1901, (p. 365) * Louis Aymer de La Chevalerie (marquis d'), Henri Carré, ''Le journal d'émigration, 1791-1797'', 1933, (p. 58)

References

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Théodore Muret
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