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Félix-Auguste Duvert
Félix-Auguste Duvert (12 January 1795 – 19 October 1876) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevillist. Biography Félix-Auguste Duvert was first a soldier. A volunteer in 1811 among the riflemen of the young guard, he then was part of a regiment of dragoons that he left only after the dismissal of the Armée de la Loire. In 1823, he made his debut as a playwright at the Théâtre du Gymnase dramatique with ''Les Frères de lait'', a one-act comédie en vaudeville cowritten with Édouard Nicole. He would afterwards collaborate primarily with Paul Duport, Saintine, Étienne Arago, Charles Dupeuty and Charles Varin. But from 1830, his name was inseparably linked to that of his son in law, Augustin de Lauzanne. The latter's share in the development of their works was the backbone of the plot, the outlining of the characters and imagination of the '' quiproquos''. The duo would produce a very great number of successful "follies" for over forty years. Duvert also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard (playwright)
Claude Wolf, called Bernard (Dutch Ceylon, 1785 – ?) was a 19th-century Theatre in France, French actor, singer, playwright and theatre manager. Short biography Bernard sang in Kassel in 1812, in Lille from 1813 to 1815, then at the La Monnaie, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1818, theatre of which he became director the year after until 1823. While he was managing director of La Monnaie he made his debut at the Comédie-Française in 1822, then left Brussels and became director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1823, a position he would keep until 1826. Bernard headed the Opéra de Marseille from 1828 to 1830. He wrote some plays including: *1815: ''Jeanne Maillotte, ou la Cabaretière lilloise'', two-act vaudeville, Lille, 9 November; *1815: ''L'Hommage de la garde nationale de Lille au roi, ou la Veille du jour de l'an'', one-act vaudeville and extravaganza, Lille, 31 December; *1819: ''Momus à la nouvelle salle'', prologue d'inauguration joué devant le roi et la r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Basset
Alexandre-André Basset (1790 – 22 April 1870) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Alexandre and d'Ornoy. From May 1845 to May 1848, he was managing director of the Opéra-Comique. Theatre *1824: ''Veuve et Garçon'', one-act comédie en vaudeville with Emmanuel Théaulon, and Théodore Pernot de Colombey, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique (14 December) *1829: ''Le Cousin Frédéric ou la Correspondance'', one-act comédie-vaudeville with Étienne Arago and Émile de Rougemont, Théâtre du Vaudeville (7 February) *1831: ''Heur et Malheur'', vaudeville, with Félix-Auguste Duvert and Augustin-Théodore de Lauzanne de Vauroussel, Vaudeville (19 April) *1831: ''Les Enfants du pasteur'', one-act drama mingled with couplets, Théâtre des Nouveautés (9 October) *1832: ''La Mort du Roi de Rome'', one-act drama by d'Ornoy, Théâtre du Panthéon The Théâtre du Panthéon was a theatre building in Paris, at 96 (now 46) rue Saint-Jacques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle, revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news or literature. Similar to the related subforms of operetta and musical theatre, the revue art form brings together music, dance and sketches to create a compelling show. In contrast to these, however, revue does not have an overarching storyline. Rather, a general theme serves as the motto for a loosely-related series of acts that alternate between solo performances and dance ensembles. Owing to high ticket prices, ribald publicity campaigns and the occasional use of prurient material, the revue was typically patronized by audience members who earned more and felt even less restricted by middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trois Glorieuses
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (french: révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or ("Three Glorious ays), was a second French Revolution after the first in 1789. It led to the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. After 18 precarious years on the throne, Louis-Philippe was overthrown in the French Revolution of 1848. The 1830 Revolution marked a shift from one constitutional monarchy, under the restored House of Bourbon, to another, the July Monarchy; the transition of power from the House of Bourbon to its cadet branch, the House of Orléans; and the replacement of the principle of hereditary right by that of popular sovereignty. Supporters of the Bourbons would be called Legitimists, and supporters of Louis Philippe were known as Orléanists. In addition, there continued to be Bonapartists supporting the return of Napoleon's descendants. Back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernani (drama)
''Hernani'' (full title: ''Hernani, ou l'Honneur Castillan'') is a drama in rhyming alexandrines by the French romantic author Victor Hugo. The title originates from Hernani, a Spanish town in the Southern Basque Country, where Hugo's mother and her three children stopped on their way to General Hugo's place of residence. The play was given its premiere on 25 February 1830 by the Comédie-Française in Paris. Today, it is more remembered for the demonstrations which accompanied the first performance and for being the inspiration for Giuseppe Verdi's opera '' Ernani'' than it is for its own merits. Hugo had enlisted the support of fellow Romanticists such as Hector Berlioz and Théophile Gautier to combat the opposition of Classicists who recognised the play as a direct attack on their values. ''Hernani'' is used to describe the magnitude and elegance of Prince Prospero's masquerade in Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Masque of the Red Death". Gillenormand in ''Les Misérab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Des Nouveautés
The Théâtre des Nouveautés ("Theatre of the New") is a Parisian theatre built in 1921 and located at 24 boulevard Poissonnière (Paris, 9th arr.). The name was also used by several earlier Parisian theatre companies and their buildings, beginning in 1827. Present theatre (boulevard Poissonnière) The current Théâtre des Nouveautés was established in 1921 at 24 boulevard Poissonnière, (Paris, 9th arr.) under the leadership of Benoît-Léon Deutsch in collaboration with Gilbert Dupé. Built by the architect Adolf Tiers with 585 seats, the hall was inaugurated on 21 April 1921 with the play ''La journée des surprises'' ("The Day of Surprises") by Jean Bouchor. The programming was devoted to operettas and comedies. Gilbert Dupé succeeded Benoît-Léon Deutsch from 1961 to 1973. Denise Moreau-Chantegris took over in September 1973, and in 2010 Pascal Legros became the director of the theatre. Recent productions * 2009: ''Un oreiller … ou trois?'' ("One pillow … or thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desvergers
Desvergers, real name Armand-Sacré Chapeau, (1794 – 3rd arrondissement of Paris 26 June 1851 ) was a 19th-century French playwright Biography Little is known about Desvergers's life except the few lines that were dedicated to him by the media, in particular on the occasion of his death, as in ''Le Nouvelliste'' 1 July 1851: It is also known that he married Hélène-Elisa Rachel, 12 December 1822 in the 10th and had at least one son, Étienne-Armand-Albert, born 27 March 1827, Works He wrote over a hundred vaudevilles, alone or in collaboration, between 1824 and 1848. * 1824 (3 August): ''L'Anneau de Gygès'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act with Arago at the Théâtre du Vaudeville * 1826 (9 March): ''Lia, ou une Nuit d'absence'', drama-vaudeville in 2 acts with Arago at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, au bénéfice des incendiés de Salins * 1827 (16 June): ''L'Avocat'', melodrama in 3 acts and extravaganza with Arago at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique * 1827 (27 Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Des Variétés
The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle Montansier (Marguerite Brunet). Imprisoned for debt in 1803 and frowned upon by the government, a decree of 1806 ordered her company to leave the Théâtre du Palais-Royal which then bore the name of "Variétés". The decree's aim was to move out Montansier's troupe to make room for the company from the neighbouring Théâtre-Français, which had stayed empty even as the Variétés-Montansier had enjoyed immense public favour. Strongly unhappy about having to leave the theatre by 1 January 1807, the 77-year-old Montansier gained an audience with Napoleon himself and received his help and protection. She thus reunited the "Société des Cinq", which directed her troupe, in order to found a new theatre, the one which stands at the side o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri De Tully
Jules-Henry de Tully (1 May 1798 – 12 July 1846) was a French librettist and playwright. Life A deputy Commissioner of the king at the Monnaie de Paris, a member of the Société Lyrique, an administrator of the Théâtre du Luxembourg, he was co-founder of the Théâtre Beaumarchais (1835) with Théodore Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve. His theatre plays, often signed with the collective pseudonym ''Charles Henri'' were presented on the most famous Parisian stages of the 19th century, including the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Antoine, and the Théâtre du Vaudeville. An editor at ''La Psyché'', he also authored several songs.Quérard, op.cit. Works *1822: ''Les Dames Martin, ou le Mari, la femme et la veuve'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Gabriel-Alexandre Belle *1825: ''L'Exilé'', vaudeville in 2 acts, after '' Old Mortality'' by Walter Scott, with Théodore Anne and Achille d'Artois *1827: ''Le Mari par intérim'', co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saintine
Xavier Boniface Saintine (10 July 1798 – 21 January 1865) was a French dramatist and novelist. Biography He was born Joseph Xavier Boniface in Paris in 1798. In 1823, he produced a volume of poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled ''Poèmes, odes, épîtres''. In 1836 appeared '' Picciola'', a novel about the Count de Charney, a political prisoner in Piedmont, whose reason was saved by his cultivation of a tiny flower growing between the paving stones of his prison yard. This story is a masterpiece of the sentimental kind, and has been translated into many European languages.''The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information'', 11th ed. The novel earned him renown and came to be regarded as a classic of French literature.Garnett, Richard, ed. (1899). ''The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre-Joseph Le Roy De Bacre
Alexandre-Joseph Le Roy de Bacre, born in Paris, was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography He first made a career in the army as an officer before devoting himself to theater. He attended the military school in Ventimiglia and served as a lieutenant during the campaigns of 1792-1793 and was Dumouriez's aide-de-camp, following him during his flight to Austria. He then served Austria before returning to France where he was reincorporated in the regiment of the reigning prince of Isenburg and became his aide-de-camp. He then served in the Napoleonic armies and participated to the last campaigns as assistant captain of the General Staff. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre de la Gaité, Théâtre du Vaudeville, etc. Works *1795: ''Le Passage du Waal ou les Amants républicains'', opéra comique *1801: ''La Femme romanesque'', comedy in 1 act and in prose *1806: ''Caroline et D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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