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Georges Duval
Georges-Louis-Jacques Labiche (26 October 1772 – 21 May 1853), better known as Georges Duval, was an early 19th-century French playwright. Biography Duval was originally expected to become a priest, but the French Revolution occurred when he was 17. Afterwards he joined a notary and began at the same time writing plays for small theaters.Gustave Vapereau, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', t.1, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 687 From 1805 to 1835, he was employed in public service as an office manager at the Interior Ministry, which left him time to devote to playwriting under the pen name Georges Duval. Working especially for small theaters, for which he wrote 70 plays, Duval composed a large number of Comédie en vaudevilles, including many in collaboration with Armand Gouffé, Gouffé, Pierre-Ange Vieillard, Vieillard, Théophile Marion Dumersan, Dumersan, Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers, Desaugiers, Dorvigny, Edmond Rochefort, Rochefort, Frédéric Gaëtan, marq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valognes
Valognes () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Geography Valognes is situated in the Cotentin Peninsula, southeast of Cherbourg. Valognes station has rail connections to Caen, Paris and Cherbourg. History The town was built not far from the Gallo-Roman town of Alauna or Alaunia, from where the town derives its name. It was a fortified stronghold under the Norman dukes and French monarchs. Also here, William the Conqueror received the news that the barons of Cotentin and Bessin were conspiring to kill him, enabling him to escape to Falaise. Edward III of England took Valognes without resistance, spent one night there and then pillaged and burnt the city. Henry III of England possessed the town, which remained under English rule for thirty years. (It would be a kind of resort for English aristocratic visitors until the 1920s.) In 1588, during the French Wars of Religion, Valognes sided with the Catholic League. The castle, like that o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in Society, human society and the Natural environment, environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, History of slavery, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russian Empire, Russia and Qing dynasty, China. Western world, Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Data
Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally. A datum is an individual value in a collection of data. Data are usually organized into structures such as tables that provide additional context and meaning, and may themselves be used as data in larger structures. Data may be used as variables in a computational process. Data may represent abstract ideas or concrete measurements. Data are commonly used in scientific research, economics, and virtually every other form of human organizational activity. Examples of data sets include price indices (such as the consumer price index), unemployment rates, literacy rates, and census data. In this context, data represent the raw facts and figures from which useful information can be extracted. Data are collected using technique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Frère
Édouard Frère (; 27 September 1797, Rouen – 7 April 1874, Rouen) was a French bookseller, archivist, biographer, and historian specialized in the Normandy area. Life The son and grandson of booksellers, Frère's father, Jacques-Christophe operated a significant and almost a century-old library on the port of Rouen.A description can be found in Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Dibdin's ''A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany'', 1821. Despite having received an education that gave him access to all the liberal professions, Frère's family background gave him a strong taste for books to which he remained faithful until his death. He succeeded his father in 1827 at the family library, and was, from 1827 to 1842, one of those applied and learned booksellers who was of assistance both to letters and its servants. He carried on the traditions of Rouen's most renowned publishers by publishing major works, all related to Normandy, without having misgivings a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérick Lemaître
Antoine Louis Prosper "Fr̩d̩rick" Lemątre (; 28 July 1800 Р26 January 1876) was a French actor and playwright, one of the most famous players on the celebrated Boulevard du Crime. Biography Lemątre, the son of an architect, was born at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime. He adopted the first name "Fr̩d̩rick" as a stage name. He spent two years at the Conservatoire de Paris, and made his first appearance at a variety performance in one of the basement restaurants at the Palais Royal. At the Th̢̩tre de l'Ambigu-Comique on 12 July 1823 he played the part of Robert Macaire in ''L'Auberge des Adrets''. The melodrama was played seriously on the first night and was received with little favor, but it was changed on the second night to burlesque, and thanks to him had a great success. All of Paris came to see it, and from that day he was famous. He created a number of parts that added to his popularity, especially Cardillac, Cagliostro and Cartouche. His success in the las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Werdet
Edmond Werdet (6 November 1793 - 1870) was a French author and book publisher. Life He was married in June 1845 and had one son whose name was Oscar. He went bankrupt in 1837 and again in 1845, dying in poverty. Author The following books authored by him are currently extant: * ''Portrait intime de Balzac'' (Paris: E. Dentu, 1859) * ''De la librairie française : Son passé--son présent--son avenir, avec des notices biographiques sur les libraires-éditeurs les plus distingués depuis 1789'' (Paris: E. Dentu, 1860) * ''Souvenirs de la vie littéraire'' (E. Dentu, 1879) * ''Histoire du livre en France depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1789'' (Paris: E. Dentu, 1861; 4 volumes) Publisher He was the publisher of the following books: * '' La Vieille Fille'' * '' Le Lys dans la vallée'' * '' Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes'' References Writers from Bordeaux 1793 births 1870 deaths 19th-century French journalists French male journalists French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Nicolas Barba
Jean-Nicolas is a French compound given name, a combination of Jean and Nicolas. Notable people with the name include: * Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (1763–1842), French playwright, librettist and politician * Jean-Nicolas Boulay (1837–1905), French clergyman, bryologist and paleobotanist * Jean-Nicolas Carrière (born 1985), Canadian football player * Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755–1821), French physician * Jean-Nicolas Curély (1774–1827), French cavalry officer * Jean-Nicolas Céré (1737–1810), French botanist and agronomist * Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (1751–1814), French writer and politician * Jean-Nicolas de Francine (1662–1735), French musician * Jean-Nicolas Gannal (1791–1852), French chemist * Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633–1694), French harpsichordist, organist and composer * Jean-Nicolas Huyot (1780–1840), French architect * Jean-Nicolas Laverlochère (1812–1884), French Roman Catholic missionary in Canada * Jean-Nicolas Lemmens (1850–1897), Dutch Catholic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand-François Jouslin De La Salle
Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle (15 September 1794 – 1 July 1863) was a French lawyer, journalist, dramatist and theatre director. Jouslin de La Salle was administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1832 to 1837, and then of the théâtre des Variétés in 1839. Theatre * ''Le Mûrier'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Jules Vernet 22 June 1819. * ''Les Deux Veuves ou les Contrastes'', comedy in 1 act, with Martial Aubertin, 10 April 1821. * ''Jane Shore'', melodrame en 3 acts, with Hyacinthe Decomberousse, Alphonse de Chavanges, 1824. * ''La Famille du charlatan'', folie vaudeville in 1 act, with Maurice de Chavanges, 12 October 1824. * ''L’École du scandale'', play in 3 acts and in prose, with Charles-R.-E. de Saint-Maurice, Edmond Crosnier, 8 December 1824. * ''Les Acteurs à l’auberge'', comedy in one act, with Maurice Alhoy and Francis Cornu, 28 May 1825. * ''La Corbeille de mariage ou les Étrennes du futur'', vaudeville in one act, with Maurice Alhoy and L� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Carmouche
Pierre Carmouche (9 April 1797 - 9 December 1868) was a French playwright and chansonnier. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies, comédies en vaudevilles and texts for opéras comiques, in collaboration with diverse authors - Brazier, Dumersan, Mélesville, de Courcy, etc. In 1824 he married the actress Jenny Vertpré. He also collected a rich library, bequeathed in part to marshal Canrobert. Theatre * ''Les Poissons d'avril, ou le Charivari'', comédie en vaudevilles, with Émile Cottenet, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 1 April 1816. * ''Le Bateau à vapeur'', comedy in one act, mingled with couplets, with Émile Cottenet, Philibert Rozet, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 1816. * ''L'Heureuse Moisson, ou le Spéculateur en défaut'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act mingled with couplets, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and Frédéric de Courcy, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, September 1817. * ''La Cloyère d'huitres, ou les Deux Briquebec'', com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Political philosophy#European Enlightenment, political, and Western philosophy, philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present.. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bibliography, his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in 1775 following the success of his first novel, ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (1774), and joined a thriving intellectual and cultural environment under the patronage of Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess Anna Amalia that formed the basis of Weimar Classicism. He was ennobled by Karl August, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
