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Morel (vaudevillist)
Morel, born before 1783 – died in 1802, was a French 18th–19th-century playwright and writer of Comédie en vaudevilles. His first name has always been unknown. Morel's short career may suggest that he was the pseudonym of a more famous author unidentified to date. Joseph-Marie Quérard in his 1834 book ''La France Littéraire'' writes "MOREL ( ), died in 1802, aged 19" with no further information and Léon Thiessé in his ''Essai biographique et littéraire'' "We have named Morel, who died in 1802 aged twenty-one from a chest disease, who left some nice songs, and a political work almost unknown".''M. Étienne: Essai biographique et littéraire'', 1853, (p. XIV) Works *1799: ''Le Café des artistes'', one-act Comédie en vaudeville, with Charles-Guillaume Étienne and Charles Gaugiran-Nanteuil *1799: ''L'intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire, ou les jacobins, par moi'' *1799: ''Les Dieux à Tivoli, ou l'Ascension de l'Olympe'', folie non fastueuse, arlequinade, imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudonym
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's own. Many pseudonym holders use pseudonyms because they wish to remain Anonymity, anonymous, but anonymity is difficult to achieve and often fraught with legal issues. Scope Pseudonyms include stage names, User (computing), user names, ring names, pen names, aliases, superhero or villain identities and code names, gamer identifications, and regnal names of emperors, popes, and other monarchs. In some cases, it may also include nicknames. Historically, they have sometimes taken the form of anagrams, Graecisms, and Latinisation (literature), Latinisations. Pseudonyms should not be confused with new names that replace old ones and become the individual's full-time name. Pseudonyms are "part-time" names, used only in certain contexts – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph-Marie Quérard
Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the first volumes of his great work, ''La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, &c.'' (14 vols., 1826–1842). This bibliography dealt with the 18th and early 19th centuries, and he was enabled to complete it by a government subsidy granted by Guizot in 1830, and using the assistance of the Russian bibliophile Serge Poltoratzky. His final volume of contemporary French literature, with which he hoped to complete his work, was cancelled by his publisher, the firm of Didot, without a kill fee A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between them. A contract typically involves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Guillaume Étienne
Charles-Guillaume Étienne (5 January 177813 March 1845) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography He was born in Chamouilley, Haute-Marne. He held various municipal offices under the Revolution and came in 1793 to Paris, where he produced his first opera, ''Le Rêve'', in 1799, in collaboration with Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick. Although Étienne continued to write for the Paris theatres for twenty years from that date, he is remembered chiefly as the author of one comedy, which excited considerable controversy. ''Les Deux Gendres'' was represented at the Théâtre Français on 11 August 1810, and procured for its author a seat in the Académie française. A rumour was put in circulation that Étienne had drawn largely on a manuscript play in the imperial library, entitled ''Conaxa, ou les gendres dupes''. His rivals were not slow to take up the charge of plagiarism, to which Étienne replied that the story was an old one (it existed in an old French fabliaus) and had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impromptu
An impromptu (, , loosely meaning "offhand") is a free-form musical composition with the character of an '' ex tempore'' improvisation as if prompted by the spirit of the moment, usually for a solo instrument, such as piano. According to ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'', Johann Baptist Cramer began publishing piano pieces under the (sub-)title of "impromptu." (AMZ, Mar. No II, 1815, col. 6), which seems to be the first recorded use of the term ''impromptu'' in this sense. Form usage Since the very concept of unpremeditated, spur-of-the-moment inspiration without studied care is at the heart of Romantic artistic theory, it did not take long before the first generation of Romantic composers took up the idea. Others were: * Frédéric Chopin composed 4 '' Impromptus'', including the famous Fantaisie-Impromptu. * Jan Václav VoÅ™ÃÅ¡ek was the first one to compose impromptus published under that title, in 1822. * Franz Schubert published two sets of four '' Impromptus'' for pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Baron D'Allarde
Marie-François-Denis-Thérésa Le Roy Allarde better known as Francis baron d'Allarde (12 March 1778 – 4 October 1841) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright. Biography The son of the politician , he was a journalist in the United-States (1794-1796) where he was responsible for a column devoted to good manners in a newspaper of Massachusetts. He graduated from University of Cambridge and returned to France in 1797 with the French legation. He began a career in theater with ''Arlequin aux Petites Maisons'', a play which was given at Théâtre des Troubadours . His plays, some of which achieved a great success, signed under many pseudonyms (Francis, M. Sapajou, baron d'Allarde...) were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, and the Théâtre du Vaudeville. He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (6th division). Works * ''Arlequin aux Petites Maisons' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Servières
Joseph Servières (20 July 1781 – 3 February 1826online archive of the City of Paris, reconstructed civil status, fiche n° 6/5/ref>) was an early 19th-century French playwright. Biography Servieres made good studies in his hometown and came very young to Paris, where upon his arrival he gave several Play (theatre), theatre plays which had some success. He was noticed by Lucien Bonaparte, then interior minister, but soon fell into Napoleon's disfavor. In 1807, he married Eugénie Charen, the stepdaughter of the painter Lethière, who was herself a distinguished artist. He then accompanied to Italy his stepfather who had been appointed director of the French School in Rome, where he met Lucien, a longtime friend and confidant of Lethière. Servières returned to Paris in 1812 and obtained a position in the public treasury. Under the Restoration, he was appointed a public auditor at the Court of Audit on 8 September 1818. He kept on writing plays until his death. Works *1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philibert Rozet
Louis Philibert Rozet (died 11 April 1853) was a French playwright of the 19th century. His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Théâtre du Vaudeville etc. Works *1779: ''Lamentine, ou les Tapouis'', comi-tragic play in 2 acts and in verses, with Auguste-Étienne-Xavier Poisson de La Chabeaussière *1800: ''Arlequin portier'', comedy-parade in 1 act mingled with vaudevilles, with Joseph Marty *1801: ''Colombine toute seule'', scène-parade, mingled with vaudevilles, with Marty and Étienne Morel de Chédeville *1801: ''Jacasset ou, La contrainte par corps'', comedy in 1 act *1810: ''Le Monde renversé'', vaudeville in 1 act *1811: ''Les petits caquets'', explanatory prologue of ''La sœur de la Miséricorde'', in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with H. Simon *1811: ''Les Sabines de Limoges, ou l'Enlèvement singulier'', vaudeville héroïque in 1 act, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Crétu
*1826: ''Le Chiffonnier, ou le Philosophe nocturne'', comédie en vaudevilles in five acts and in one day, with Emmanuel Théaulon
*1826: ''Paris et Bruxelles, ou le Chemin à la mode'' ...
Étienne Crétu was an 18th-19th-century French playwright. The son of Anthelme Crétu, managing director of the Théâtre des Variétés who associated him to the direction, his plays were presented in this theatre from 1801 to 1828. Works *1785: ''Les Deux gendres'', comedy in five acts and in verse *1799: ''Pygmalion à Saint-Maur'', farce-anecdotique in one act and vaudevilles, with François Bernard-Valville and Étienne Gosse *1801: ''Quel est le plus ridicule ? ou La Gravure en action'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Gosse and Morel ''Morchella'', the true morels, is a genus of edible sac fungi closely related to anatomically simpler cup fungi in the order Pezizales (division Ascomycota). These distinctive fungi have a honeycomb appearance due to the network of ridges with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Gosse
Étienne Gosse (Bordeaux, 1773 – Toulon, 21 February 1834) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, chansonnier, and journalist. Short biography In 1793 he volunteered in the army and quickly became an officer and secretary at the arsenal in Nantes. Wounded during the war in the Vendée in 1796, he retired from service. A proponent of liberal ideas in ''le Miroir'' and ''la Pandore'', his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de la Gaîté, the Théâtre Français, and the Théâtre des Variétés. He died from a stroke of apoplexy in Toulon 21 February 1834. Works *1794: ''La Mort de Vincent Malignon'', trait historique, in 1 act *1798: ''L'Épreuve par ressemblance'', one-act comedy, in verse *1799: ''L'Auteur dans son ménage'', one-act comedy, in prose, mingled with ariettes *1799: ''L'Épicière bel-esprit'', one-act comedy, in prose, with François Bernard-Valville *1799: ''Les Femmes politiques'', three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded across the shores of the Atlantic, while declining in Russia, China, and Korea. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures, including the structures and beliefs that supported slavery. The Industrial Revolution began during mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. 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 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, 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 Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
