Jean-Baptiste Gondelier (8 December 1792 in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

– after 1852), was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

Biography

An engraver and lithographer at 110 in the

2nd arrondissement of Paris The 2nd arrondissement of Paris (''IIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is colloquially referred to as ''deuxième'' (second/the second). It is governed locally ...

, Jean-Baptiste Gondelier received a patent in letters on 12 septembre 1828. A widow in 1820 of Anne-Françoise-Esther Morisset, he remarried on 25 September 1824 with Joséphine Foliot. The publisher, among others, of the ''Constitutionnel'' and the ''Gazette des théâtres'', He permanently ceased his activities as a printer-lithographer on 8 July 1852.Nominations d'imprimeurs-lithographes, etc.
''Bibliographie de la France, ou Journal général de l"imprimerie et de la librairie'', XLI° year, 1852, (p. 435), . His plays were presented at the

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and the

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Works

* 1826: ''Le Dilettante, ou le Siège de l'Opéra'', folie-vaudeville in five little acte, à propos du '' Siège de Corinthe'', with Emmanuel Théaulon and

Théodore Anne Théodore Anne (7 April 1797 – 12 August 1869) was a French playwright, librettist, and novelist. Engaged in the army in 1814, until the July Revolution of 1830 he was a member of the compagnie de Noailles then, still faithful to the Bourbons, ...

, music by

Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges (24 March 1773 – 20 January 1838) was a French cellist, conductor and composer. He is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges Jarnowick"."Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges Jarnowick". ''The New Gro ...

, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (6 November) * 1826: ''La Mère au bal et la fille à la maison'', two-act

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, with Emmanuel Théaulon, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (30 November) * 1826: ''Paris et Bruxelles, ou le Chemin à la mode'', two-act comedy in vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Étienne Crétu, at Theatre des Variétés (4 December) * 1827: ''Le Courrier des théâtres, ou la Revue à franc-étrier'', folie-vaudeville in five relais, with Théodore Anne and Emmanuel Théaulon, at Théâtre du Vaudeville (24 February) * 1827: ''La Girafe, ou Une journée au jardin du Roi'', tableau-à-propos in vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Théodore Anne, at Théâtre du Vaudeville (7 July) * 1827: ''Faust'', lyrical drama in three acts after the tragedy by

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, lyrics by Théaulon and Gondelier, music by Philippe-Alexis Béancourt, at the Théâtre des Nouveautés (27 October)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gondelier, Jean-Baptiste 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 1792 births 19th-century deaths Year of death missing Date of death missing Writers from Dijon